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From: Paul <set@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Copyright
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:03:25
Message-Id: 20020813210322.GA4017@squish.home.loc
1 Hi;
2
3 I have submitted several ebuilds, and they have been
4 accepted, or are in the pipeline. This is good.
5 However, I see that the policy seems to be to rip
6 out any reference to my name/email, and slap a Gentoo Copyright
7 on them.
8 This makes me uncomfortable. And its technically wrong.
9 I dont want my email address in the ebuild for glory (if there
10 can be any such thing in a grotty bit of shell and sed),
11 but I wrote the thing, and if someone has a problem, they could
12 send me some email, and I might be the best person to fix it.
13 As far as the copyright goes, if you _require_ me to
14 give you my copyright in order to accept a submitted ebuild,
15 well, thats fine. But 'gentoo inc.' is not the FSF, and having
16 them assume copyright without my consent makes me uneasy.
17 Why is GPLing it not sufficient? I dont know what I would ever
18 want to do anything with my copyright, but I could, for example
19 relicense it under BSD for some other project...
20 It would be a shame for such a silly little detail to
21 result in my keeping my ebuilds to myself. (or finding an
22 alternate way of distributing them.) because I really really
23 like Gentoo.
24 Could someone make some official clarifications here,
25 as far as policy and requirements are concerned?
26
27 Thankyou;
28 Paul
29 set@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Copyright Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@×××××××.no>