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On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I think you could make an argument that voluntarily placing that |
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>> header on your work is an assignment of copyright. |
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> I very much doubt that. |
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Well, like I said you can argue it either way. Everybody is going to |
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have an opinion, but the only ones that matter are those of the |
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various top-level courts internationally, especially the US Supreme |
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Court (since US law tends to get enforced extra-judicially). |
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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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Well, depending on how this is done the main harm is in administrative |
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overhead, unless this is automated, or we use a simplistic approach of |
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just continuing to append names. |
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Rich |
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