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On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> wrote: |
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> And I see absolutely no harm in explicitly annotating the actual |
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> copyright in gentoo ebuilds. |
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It seems like a simple and practical enough way to go. However, one of |
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the arguments going for assigning copyright to the Gentoo foundation |
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at the time we discussed it is that it offers some level of legal |
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protection to the developer or external contributor. I have first hand |
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experience of how abusive lawyers can sue you for totally invalid |
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IP-related reasons and ruin your life. I've been fighting exactly that |
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for almost 10 years now. So I certainly appreciate the comfort that |
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assigning copyright of my Gentoo work to the foundation provides me. |
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Having grown up in Europe I can see why people would think this could |
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never happen to them, but living in the US has taught me differently. |
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That said, we could always make it possible for the developer to |
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voluntarily assign copyright to the foundation if (s)he so desires. |
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And I would certainly do that for myself. |
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Calchan. |
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