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| From: | Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus? | ||
| Date: | Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:28:59 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAGfcS_khMYRsBRFtrB23eNfj11Repf2bQTxFvjHTtQijq70TEQ@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus? by "William L. Thomson Jr." |
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| 1 | On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:25 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. |
| 2 | <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
| 3 | > On Monday, October 24, 2016 7:07:41 PM EDT Rich Freeman wrote: |
| 4 | >> |
| 5 | >> I think you could make an argument that voluntarily placing that header on |
| 6 | >> your work is an assignment of copyright. |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > For the original author. That is not the case if adding another's ebuild to |
| 9 | > tree. Which seems to be the problem in the other thread. |
| 10 | > |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Completely true, which is why devs aren't supposed to add ebuilds they |
| 13 | don't hold copyright on without permission. A DCO would probably help |
| 14 | with this, which is why that is generally considered a best practice. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | -- |
| 17 | Rich |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus? | "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus? | Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o> |