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On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 05:24:04PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > I populated the example list based on tying the "Copyright: Sony Interactive |
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> > Entertainment Inc." commit messages to the author of those commits. |
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> I was responding to the wording of your proposal: "the list is |
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> copyright holders that the developer has worked for." |
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> If I commit something copyrighted by Google, that doesn't make me a |
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> Google employee, or suggest that I've done work on their behalf in any |
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> way. I (probably without their knowledge) just copy/pasted their code |
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> into the repo, under the terms of whatever license they released the |
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> code under. |
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I didn't say it did, read further below. |
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> You could change the wording to: |
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> "...where key is the identify of a Gentoo developer, and the list are |
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> entities who own the copyright to parts of commits the developer has |
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> made." |
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> I really don't see the value though in making this association. What |
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> good is it to know that somewhere in somebody's long list of commits |
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> that there might be a few lines originally created by the Apache |
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> Foundation or whatever? |
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I agree it should be substantial works that could reach the threshold of |
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copyright notability, and that's what I feel my list is. |
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> In the case of actual employment it might make more sense if there are |
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> extensive works for hire, but not if somebody just one time committed |
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> one patch file that held somebody else's copyright. |
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I'd say all of my entries do fall under more extensive works for hire, |
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as multiple organizations I listed were my full-time employers for |
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years, and I contributed to Gentoo on work time, for work purposes, |
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under open-source licenses, with the approval of the company (easy in |
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small companies). |
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The separate list of consulting work I did also featured extensive |
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works, e.g. one of the entries there funded my work to make Open-iSCSI |
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work with LDAP authentication in Gentoo. |
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Revised suggestion taking into account your concern as well as the |
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separate thread that contributors without @gentoo.org addresses should |
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be recognized: |
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key: |
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name of contributor and/or their associated unique email address |
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(emails should not be duplicated in the keys) |
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value: |
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a list of entities who may own the copyright to parts of commits |
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the developer has made |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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