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Hi; |
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I have submitted several ebuilds, and they have been |
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accepted, or are in the pipeline. This is good. |
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However, I see that the policy seems to be to rip |
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out any reference to my name/email, and slap a Gentoo Copyright |
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on them. |
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This makes me uncomfortable. And its technically wrong. |
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I dont want my email address in the ebuild for glory (if there |
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can be any such thing in a grotty bit of shell and sed), |
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but I wrote the thing, and if someone has a problem, they could |
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send me some email, and I might be the best person to fix it. |
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As far as the copyright goes, if you _require_ me to |
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give you my copyright in order to accept a submitted ebuild, |
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well, thats fine. But 'gentoo inc.' is not the FSF, and having |
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them assume copyright without my consent makes me uneasy. |
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Why is GPLing it not sufficient? I dont know what I would ever |
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want to do anything with my copyright, but I could, for example |
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relicense it under BSD for some other project... |
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It would be a shame for such a silly little detail to |
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result in my keeping my ebuilds to myself. (or finding an |
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alternate way of distributing them.) because I really really |
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like Gentoo. |
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Could someone make some official clarifications here, |
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as far as policy and requirements are concerned? |
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Thankyou; |
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Paul |
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set@×××××.com |