Gentoo Archives: gentoo-nfp

From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Foundation
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 20:38:17
Message-Id: 20080528222830.7bf5b0c8@sheridan.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Foundation by Roy Bamford
1 On Wed, 28 May 2008 20:57:50 +0100
2 Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > The Gentoo Foundation has very little intellectual property and its
5 > growing slowly if at all. Some history is probably in order.
6 > Gentoo under Daniel Robbins was quite different that it is today.
7 > Developers were asked to sign over copyright in their contributions
8 > to Gentoo Technologies Inc, which was a company set up by Daniel.
9
10 To clarify this: only devs that joined during a specific time period
11 (IIRC 2004-2005) had to sign that agreement. It was created so we had a
12 legal copyright transfer to back the copyright headers in
13 ebuilds/sourcecode created by Gentoo devs, and was removed because it
14 was considered to be too wide in scope (potentially covering personal
15 hardware used for Gentoo development). The removal was not directly
16 related to Daniel leaving or the change from Gentoo Technologies Inc to
17 the foundation.
18
19 Marius
20
21 --
22 Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub
23
24 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
25 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.

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