Re: [gentoo-dev] non-Gentoo stuff in our CVS

[Luke-Jr]

On Sunday 10 October 2004 8:47 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:36:57 +0000 Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote:
> | On Sunday 10 October 2004 9:37 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> | > I feel that it is our best interest if developer made patches are
> | > assigned to gentoo, but we could also do it by simple copyright
> | > assignment (e.g. putting a header on the patch which says Copyright
> | > Gentoo Foundation 200x)
> |
> | Doing this would prevent such patches from being submitted upstream to
> | projects with just as absurd a policy (copyright assigned to only
> | them). This kind of policy really prevents open source from being any
> | better than proprietary software-- if both projects require exclusive
> | ownership of the code, then either one or the other can use it, not
> | both.--
>
> No, it just means that the patches in question would have to go in
> mirror://gentoo/ rather than in ${FILESDIR}.

Assuming it is patches that is the issue. This would still be an issue if 
someone wanted to mix Portage code (some generic function, perhaps) with 
another program that has the same policy.
-- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
http://utopios.org/