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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement?
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 16:54:37
Message-Id: 23345.7747.959827.646836@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement? by "M. J. Everitt"
1 >>>>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2018, M J Everitt wrote:
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3 > By contrast, Gentoo is likely to have been cobbled together by a
4 > consensus of unqualified persons,
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6 I would wish you would argue about the facts, instead of resorting to
7 an ad-hominem argument. Or, if you believe that you're not qualified
8 for the former, simply abstain from posting.
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10 > and is quite unlikely to be defended in court, -should- it come to
11 > that (see recent legal case of McHardy et al).
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13 See? Apparently all these "large organisations" with their highly
14 qualified lawyers hadn't understood the consequences of the
15 termination clause in section 4 of GPL-2, which is there since 1985.
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17 (And yes, I am aware that they try to band-aid it by imposing
18 additional restrictions on top of the GPL.)
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20 Ulrich

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