From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6186 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Aug 2003 13:14:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 24468 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2003 13:14:49 -0000 From: Chris Gianelloni To: Paul Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20030822044518.GA7223@squish.home.loc> References: <20030821040916.GE26885@squish.home.loc> <20030821064109.GH26885@squish.home.loc> <20030821065001.GA4386@cerberus.oppresses.us> <200308211114.48952.C.J.Bainbridge@ed.ac.uk> <20030822044518.GA7223@squish.home.loc> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-0p6yixp9F92yBq4bLNu5" Message-Id: <1061558201.415.152.camel@vertigo> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 22 Aug 2003 09:16:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Why should copyright assignment be a requirement? X-Archives-Salt: 9c58c826-c658-4f83-a3d5-275d25679c53 X-Archives-Hash: 459ab737f25ce27ca6a79e3d3933c26a --=-0p6yixp9F92yBq4bLNu5 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Developer, Gentoo Linux --=-0p6yixp9F92yBq4bLNu5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/Rhe5kT4lNIS36YERAkSTAJ9iS+QD1FwgibVN9TgHngHSSd8ccQCdEpOt 3Yv0bOcl7ZLDsD0dfbk9Y5o= =Qp7q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-0p6yixp9F92yBq4bLNu5--