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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 07:26:45
Message-Id: 496872f8-3f32-2920-feb7-7044220f7e97@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus? by Rich Freeman
1 On 10/25/2016 01:28 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:25 PM, William L. Thomson Jr.
3 > <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote:
4 >> On Monday, October 24, 2016 7:07:41 PM EDT Rich Freeman wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>> I think you could make an argument that voluntarily placing that header on
7 >>> your work is an assignment of copyright.
8 >>
9 >> For the original author. That is not the case if adding another's ebuild to
10 >> tree. Which seems to be the problem in the other thread.
11 >>
12 >
13 > Completely true, which is why devs aren't supposed to add ebuilds they
14 > don't hold copyright on without permission. A DCO would probably help
15 > with this, which is why that is generally considered a best practice.
16 >
17 +1
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