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On 03/07/15 07:09, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Since this is a copy of Gentoo ebuilds this is demonstrably wrong, the |
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>>> copyrights on the files themselves are intact. Copyright is obviously |
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>>> Gentoo Foundation, and license is GPL-2. |
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>> Thanks for noticing this. Quoting the GPL-2: |
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>> 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program |
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>> except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt |
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>> otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is |
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>> void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. |
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>> |
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>> Does this apply here? It would mean that Google's rights to distribute |
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>> the Portage tree have been terminated. |
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> I'd probably talk to a lawyer before celebrating the death of Google. |
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> All the copyright notices in the files are intact. As far as I can |
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> tell Google hasn't done anything that actually violates the GPL. The |
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> only complaint here is that there is a readme file with a different |
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> copyright notice inside. The issue is trivially correctable by Google |
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> by simply fixing the notice, or clarifying what it applies to. No |
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> court is going to prefer permanently terminating Google's rights to |
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> distribute ChromeOS over simply letting them clean things up. |
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During the eudev thingy, Greg K-H said that you can copyright a line, a |
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file or an entire program. If the copyright notices in the files are |
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intact, then I think they're okay. Those individual files can still be |
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distributed under GPLv2 copyright Gentoo. The question is, what do |
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their non-GPLv2 copyright notices refer to? If there is some confusion, |
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then we should ask downstream to clearify it in their README. Something |
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like "FooBarOS is licensed under BSD except for those components which |
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are licensed otherwise. Copyright notices for individual files can be |
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found in the respective files." Or something like that. |
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On a different note, I like having downstreams. I just wish they'd toot |
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our whistle more and say "we are a gentoo derived distro". |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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