Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

[Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 20:07 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> Unless there are third party repositories shipping their own
> from-scratch ebuilds... In which case, afaics there's nothing to stop
> *them* from going GPL-3 if they think there's a reason to do so. Unless
> the Foundation somehow claims that all ebuilds, even those
> from-scratch, are derived works?

What's the case here?  Third-party ebuilds being contributed into the
tree via bugzilla and other means?  Or third-party ebuilds from joe
shmoe off www.joeshmoesebuilds.com?

The second case is meaningless to Gentoo.   The first case needs to be
considered.  The question there, I suppose, is: do we *require*
contributors to license ebuilds as GPL-2?  And if that is the case,
that's what stops them.

It would be an interesting question, though, to prove that someone wrote
a from-scratch ebuild via looking only at the documentation, and without
basing any parts off of already existing ebuilds in the tree, no?


Thanks,

Seemant


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