Gentoo Archives: gentoo-licenses

From: Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o>
To: gentoo-licenses@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-licenses] The GPL-2, modified works, and ChangeLog files
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:04:10
Message-Id: 546C6B12.9050704@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-licenses] The GPL-2, modified works, and ChangeLog files by Ulrich Mueller
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4 On 19/11/14 09:36, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
5 > How does this translate to our situation with many developers
6 > committing to a central repository? Is the latest version of the
7 > tree the "original work", with a collective copyright of all
8 > contributors? Or is each commit a "modified version" of the
9 > previous? I believe that in the first case (distribution of the
10 > original work) modification notices wouldn't be needed at all, but
11 > that in the second case the GPL would require them.
12 The former, I should think. But maybe we should send an email to
13 someone at the FSF or the SFLC.
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16 Alexander
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Re: [gentoo-licenses] The GPL-2, modified works, and ChangeLog files Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o>