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On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 3:23 PM Sarah White <kuzetsa@××××××××××.ovh> wrote: |
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> On 11/23/18 2:46 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > Nobody is suggesting that multiple copyright owners shouldn't be |
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> > allowed. Merely that multiple copyright owners shouldn't be named in |
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> > the copyright notice. |
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> The interest in removing or discouraging a more verbose, |
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> explicit copyright notice would suggest the only legitimate |
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> interest should be assumed to be in "gentoo authors", and |
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> for no other entity(s) or person(s) need have any stake |
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> in having a well-structured copyright notice (any format) |
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I'm not sure what "well-structured" means. |
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The one-line format IS valid. If persons A, B, C, and D all own |
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copyright on a file, as far as copyright law is concerned person D |
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receives the same benefit whether the notice lists them or not. They |
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can sue for infringement even if they aren't listed on the notice, and |
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the innocent infringement defense is barred if they do, because the |
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file contains a valid notice. US law does not require the person |
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listed in the notice to be the person filing the lawsuit to obtain the |
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benefit of there being a notice. |
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Now, arguably there might be non-legal benefits of having more lines |
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in the notice, such as documenting ownership, or in advertising |
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yourself. |
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In the case of documenting ownership IMO it would be FAR more |
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efficient to do this with some kind of standardized header in git, |
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ideally one that is both human- and machine-readable. |
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In the case of advertising... If somebody is really contributing THAT |
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much to Gentoo they should probably just ask to be recognized as a |
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sponsor where you actually can stick logos on websites, advertise |
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services, get pagerank, and all that stuff. Is a company name buried |
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in an ebuild really that important for this purpose? And if it is |
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just an odd contributed ebuild, do we really want to turn our ebuilds |
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into advertising space? |
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Rich |