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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Why should copyright assignment be a
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On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 00:45, Paul wrote:
> 	Hi;
>=20
> 	In my case, I submitted ebuilds without any explicit
> Copyright notice. Devs made a minor change or two, and slapped on
> the GTI copyright. After asking, I was assured that I could
> copyright my own ebuilds, which I started doing. Im not sure if
> any made it in-- just recently, a few ebuilds from the 4 digit
> bug days with my copyrights on them were re-examined, and I was
> asked to change the copyright as a precondition to inclusion. I
> declined, and requested the bugs be closed.

It appears the requester was incorrect and should have requested that
you *also* assign copyright to GTI.  This would leave both GTI and
yourself as copyright holders on the ebuild, allowing both parties to
uphold their stake in the ebuild, while not allowing GTI sole control of
your intellectual property.

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Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux

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