From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1SDEMp5026489 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:14:22 GMT Received: from res-24-197-134-218.spa.sc.charter.com ([24.197.134.218] helo=mail.twi-31o2.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D5kj5-0000ZT-O9 for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:14:19 +0000 Received: from vertigo.twi-31o2.org (vertigo.twi-31o2.org [192.168.0.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB12248037 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:09:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright assignment and ownership (again) From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200502271803.01417.anthony@ectrolinux.com> References: <200502260502.12277.anthony@ectrolinux.com> <20050227123547.GA14936@cerberus.oppresses.us> <20050227171341.64708a0b@snowdrop> <200502271803.01417.anthony@ectrolinux.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Z81qxMCWd/SeNuF63TOB" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:14:21 -0500 Message-Id: <1109596461.5129.0.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 X-Archives-Salt: fcc73ace-60a8-4eb0-8cc7-5642751362ff X-Archives-Hash: 82045ec955f558c0359635cd325ea334 --=-Z81qxMCWd/SeNuF63TOB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 > This seems like a sensible idea, presuming the developers make certain th= at=20 > the ebuilds which are committed to the tree are licensed under the GPL. I= do,=20 > however, believe that the original author of a newly contributed ebuild=20 > 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. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-Z81qxMCWd/SeNuF63TOB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCIxktkT4lNIS36YERAiFyAJ41qUzTj63la9jOO43WmtrOo2NVpACgprmO 57M8d2sBuYisadwRzI/LKhc= =e9QP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Z81qxMCWd/SeNuF63TOB-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list