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Dear fellow (active and retired) developers, |
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We (rich0, alicef, and myself) are currently working on a new Gentoo |
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copyright policy, whose current draft version can be seen at [1]. |
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One of its goals is to cover situations where Gentoo isn't the main |
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copyright holder in a file. Connected to this is the question how |
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accurate the first line of every ebuild is, which claims copyright |
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for the Gentoo Foundation. |
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Reportedly, in the past at least some Gentoo developers signed |
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copyright assignment forms [2] to Gentoo Technologies, Inc., and |
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possibly later to the Gentoo Foundation. Bug 140286 [3] suggests |
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that this no longer took place since around 2005. |
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Now my question to you is if (and when) you have signed such a |
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copyright assignment form? Please reply to me personally; I'll post |
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a summary to the gentoo-project list later. |
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Old mailing list postings also show that several devs have refused |
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to sign the form; please also reply to me if this applies to you. |
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Thank you in advance, |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/glep-copyrightpolicy.html |
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[2] https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/copyright/assignment.pdf?revision=1.1 |
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[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/140286 |