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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright assignment and ownership (again)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:14:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109596461.5129.0.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502271803.01417.anthony@ectrolinux.com>

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On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:02 -0800, Anthony Gorecki wrote:
> On Sunday, February 27, 2005 9:13 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > How about we recognise that individual ebuilds aren't worth anything
> > and that the tree *as a whole* should be copyrighted as a single work?
> 
> This seems like a sensible idea, presuming the developers make certain that 
> the ebuilds which are committed to the tree are licensed under the GPL. I do, 
> however, believe that the original author of a newly contributed ebuild 
> deserves at least to have his name mentioned as such in the file.

I think the Gentoo policy on this is to name the author in the initial
ChangeLog commit and not the ebuild itself.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-28 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-26 13:02 [gentoo-dev] Copyright assignment and ownership (again) Anthony Gorecki
2005-02-26 15:58 ` [gentoo-dev] gcc-4.0.0_alpha20050213 fails Andres Järv
2005-02-26 16:37   ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-02-26 17:50     ` Andres Järv
2005-02-26 17:58       ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-02-27 23:53       ` Luca Barbato
2005-02-27 12:35 ` [gentoo-dev] Copyright assignment and ownership (again) Jon Portnoy
2005-02-27 17:04   ` Joshua Brindle
2005-02-27 17:13   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-02-27 17:18     ` Simon Stelling
2005-02-27 17:21       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-02-27 23:05       ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-02-28 10:47         ` Simon Stelling
2005-02-28 11:02           ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-02-28  2:02     ` Anthony Gorecki
2005-02-28  5:11       ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-02-28 13:14       ` Chris Gianelloni [this message]
2005-02-28 12:44     ` Georgi Georgiev

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