Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:36:14
Message-Id: 20121119183528.27465.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > > a quick consultation with a copyright lawyer can provide us with
3 > > a very good set of rules and boundry conditions
4 >
5 > The last time someone from Gentoo spoke to a copyright lawyer, it
6 > resulted in a year-or-so-long ban on recruiting anyone, and everyone
7 > was supposed to sign a piece of paper agreeing to turn over all their
8 > floppy disks and monitors to drobbins upon request.
9
10 There are obviously bad copyright lawyers for open source projects.
11
12 But there are also really good ones.
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15 //Peter