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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 06:50:52PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> | * Notice identifies the copyright owner at the time the work was first |
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> | published for parties seeking permission to use the work. |
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> | * Notice identifies the year of first publication, which may be used |
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> | to determine the term of copyright protection in the case of an |
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> | anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire. |
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> | * Notice may prevent the work from becoming an orphan work by |
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> | identifying the copyright owner and specifying the term of the |
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> | copyright. |
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> For "indentifying the copyright owner" nothing short of a complete list |
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> will suffice. Especially, a notice like the following (which mentions |
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> only "Gentoo Authors" and "Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.") does |
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> not help with that at all (i.e., it is no better than the simplified |
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> notice): |
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> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-cluster/ceph/ceph-13.2.2-r2.ebuild?id=5f77c21f23bf1c4cfb9e68be7aa27669c8146e8e#n1 |
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Remember that in the US, SIE is a legal entity, so it can hold |
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copyrights, just like a person can. It is like "Gentoo Foundation, Inc." |
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So, there would be two contributors in that ebuild: "Gentoo Authors" |
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and SIE. |
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> Besides, these last three items are pretty much moot for a work released |
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> under the GPL-2 (which grants "permission to use"), and I think that |
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> even you aren't suggesting that we should go for a complete list of |
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> contributors. |
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You are right, I'm not advocating for a complete list of contributors. |
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I'm just advocating for flexability where contributors want it, and SIE |
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is one of those contributors that wants it. |
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William |
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