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>>>>> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Patrick McLean wrote: |
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> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:24:08 +0100 |
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> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>> To say it again, ebuilds have a copyright notice for exactly two |
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>> reasons: |
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>> - to protect us against the "innocent infringement" defense under |
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>> U.S. law, and |
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>> - because the GPL-2 requires in section 1 to "appropriately publish |
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>> on each copy an appropriate copyright notice". |
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>> For both of these, it is irrelevant what the precise contents of the |
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>> notice is. If you made a significant contribution to the file, then |
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>> you can claim copyright for it, even if there is no copyright notice |
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>> at all, of if you aren't mentioned in it. |
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>> IANAL, but I think the case for being listed there explicitly is very |
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>> weak. |
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> Is accepting contributions form entities that require it a good |
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> argument? Is this really worth losing valuable contributions over? |
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*Why* would they require it? Is there any legal reason that I've |
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missed? In what way would an explicit copyright line help in a legal |
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dispute? |
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Also I still don't understand why "Gentoo Foundation" has worked for |
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you for many years, but "Gentoo Authors" does not. |
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Ulrich |