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On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 18:12, Chris Houser wrote: |
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> Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote: [Sun Feb 3 2002, 12:37:17AM EST] |
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> > An yes, you can leave the copyright to yourself. |
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> Acutally, I believe that we want all ebuilds in the official |
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> /usr/portage to be GPL and Copyright by Gentoo Inc. GPL protects the |
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> ebuild authors from Gentoo having too much control over their work, but |
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> the Gentoo Copyright gives us some flexibility in handling the hundreds |
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> of files from different authors. |
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> Do I have this wrong? |
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Yes. you do have this wrong ;) |
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First of all, once contributions are GPL-ed , the fact that you do not |
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own the copyright does not prevent you from distributing/modifying etc. |
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So having all copyright go to Gentoo Inc. will not make your life easier |
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if you want to continue the open-souce path. |
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Second, you _can_not_ *require* contributors to give up their copyright. |
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People can actualy get concerned about the Gentoo feature and intentions |
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if you do. _If_ Gentoo Inc. will have all the copyrights, then _nothing_ |
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will prevent it one day changing the license for all _future_ versions. |
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The fact that no single entity/person has all the copyright is |
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a Good Thing (tm). |
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