Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Bad license and attribution by ChromiumOS and CoreOS
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 07:37:07
Message-Id: 20150322083639.2d70fdd0@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Bad license and attribution by ChromiumOS and CoreOS by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 09:27:54 -0500
2 "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > During the eudev thingy, Greg K-H said that you can copyright a line,
5 > a file or an entire program. If the copyright notices in the files
6 > are intact, then I think they're okay.
7
8 Better yet, you can claim copyright on a "compilation" which is
9 probably what is effectively being done here. This is how people get
10 away with defending their copyright on publications of (slightly
11 modified/ abridged/ annotated, if at all) "compilations" of centuries
12 old works. Because copyright law.
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15 jer

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