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Kurt Lieber wrote: [Tue Jun 29 2004, 02:13:16PM EDT] |
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> * It claims ownership of developer hard drives "...or computer media |
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> relating to the Work.") |
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> * It says "Gentoo Technologies" instead of "Gentoo Foundation" |
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> * It is completely unenforceable for any user (non-dev) that submits |
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> something to bugzilla and/or submissions@g.o. (we're not |
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> requiring them to sign this doc, so it's not enforceable) |
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We just need some integration with bugzilla, and get rid of |
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submissions@g.o. The integration with bugzilla should include |
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a notice on the page when making an attachment that the submitter is |
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assigning coprights over to Gentoo. |
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I don't know how to do this otherwise. When somebody submits an |
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ebuild, we can't have them getting upset at Gentoo and claiming we ran |
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off with their stuff. Also we don't want them licensing ebuilds to |
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us... we really want to own the copyright on stuff in th tree so that |
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we have future rights. |
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> * Because we allow the storage things like kernel patches, etc. for which |
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> we do not own the copyright, in CVS (in the files/ directories), it shows |
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> that we're selectively enforcing the copyright assignment. In the past, |
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> this has often resulted in the entire document being tossed in court. |
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Gonna have to talk to a lawyer about that one. |
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> * It is questionable whether or not we have any legal right to enforce |
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> copyright claims for non-US devs. They're not US citizens, so it's not |
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> clear if they're subject to US copyright restrictions/assignments. |
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Well, that doesn't change the fact that we should attempt to get |
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copyright assignment even from non-U.S. devs. *shrug* |
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> * We selectively enforce who must sign it. |
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No comment. |
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> * [minor] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/copyright/index.xml needs to |
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> be updated to remove Daniel from the text. |
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Right. |
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I think Deedra had a good point. There's only so much we can do to |
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make this thing foolproof without the help of a lawyer. Following the |
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touch ups that we can make, that's probably the best route. (Raises |
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the question: how do we *pay* lawyer fees?) |
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Regards, |
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Aron |
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Aron Griffis |
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