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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 05:25:20PM +0100, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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> On 2018-11-15 16:51, Brian Dolbec wrote: |
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> > [...] That result came back that the contributions now require the SIE |
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> > attribution. |
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> > Why is that so hard to understand... |
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> We understand that. But our problem is that we don't buy the argument "X |
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> requires Foo". We need something more. Now it looks like an arbitrary |
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> request. |
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Whether or not something is arbitrary depends on your viewpoint I |
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suppose. |
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> Maybe someone contributing to Gentoo will start working for a company |
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> which will require short disclaimer or HTTP link, ASCII art style |
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> notation... are we going to allow any of that just because someone says |
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> "My company requires that kind of attribution"? |
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This is a red herring and you know it. |
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All we are talking about is adding a single line copyright notice in an |
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ebuild. We are not talking about some company requiring fancy ascii art |
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or disclaimers. |
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William |
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