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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 01:16:37 -0400 |
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Paul <set@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> In short, Im hearing that its protective leverage |
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> for Gentoo Technologies, Inc., an entity whose status I am not |
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> currently sure of... |
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See this thread, here is the quote for you people who have killfiled |
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drobbins@g.o: |
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I've been trying to get people to keep their names in the copyright line |
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for over a year, but no one has really started doing it. To my |
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knowledge, it is better to have multiple official copyright holders for |
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GPL code than just a single copyright holder. I would like all our |
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ebuilds to have a copyright like this: |
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# Copyright 2003 Gentoo Technologies, Joe User, and others (see cvs |
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# changelog.) Distributed under the GPL version 2. |
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I don't see why this would be a problem for anyone, and makes a lot more |
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sense than what we are doing now. |
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What we are doing now began way back when we figured out that slapping a |
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"Copyright 2000 Gentoo Technologies, Inc." allowed us to comply with the |
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GPL and get back to coding. That's all there is to our current "policy," |
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folks. I am very much hoping that people will start using shared |
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copyrights soon. I think it's very bad to continue using the single |
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"Copyright Gentoo" one, and hope that some developers will start doing |
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this. This is one trend that I can't start, since all the work I do is |
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under the Gentoo Technologies, Inc. name. While I know that I'm not |
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going to rip Gentoo off, the primary benefit to me is that it quells |
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those who enjoy being paranoid about my intentions. |
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The rules should be: |
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ebuilds should be copyright Gentoo Technologies, Inc. *and* the original |
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author/submitter, with a note for all additional cvs committers. What |
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this does is prevent Gentoo or the original committer or later |
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contributors from changing the license away from the GPL 2 unless all |
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copyright holders agree. This basically makes it practically impossible |
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for code to be hijacked from our tree, or from our users (by me |
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presumably, after going on some kind of evil kick.) This seems |
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near-ideal. It would be helpful if a GPL and copyright expert could |
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review and comment. |
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