From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10755 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Aug 2003 08:58:36 -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 1618 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2003 08:58:36 -0000 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:58:19 +0200 From: Sven Vermeulen To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030821085819.GE1098@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030821040916.GE26885@squish.home.loc> <20030821041723.GA2653@cerberus.oppresses.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zjcmjzIkjQU2rmur" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030821041723.GA2653@cerberus.oppresses.us> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20 X-Telephone: +32 486 460306 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why should copyright assignment be a requirement? X-Archives-Salt: 5d6619ae-ab07-4d49-95f6-bfbcca1aaf83 X-Archives-Hash: 7764b809d72b6aa213873ad536dddd58 --zjcmjzIkjQU2rmur Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:17:23AM -0400, Jon Portnoy wrote: > With regards to copyrights, it's necessary for us to own copyright on=20 > ebuilds in order to defend our intellectual property. If we (Gentoo=20 > Technologies) don't own copyright on ebuilds (and other pieces of=20 > Gentoo), we have no legal leg to stand on if someone (for example)=20 > attempts to put a more restrictive license on that piece of intellectual= =20 > property. If the object in question (here, the ebuild) is licensed under GPL (not the program it refers to, but the ebuild itself) then even the copyrightholder can't force Gentoo to stop spreading the object since the license is still valid. I'm not sure though that ebuilds are under any sort of license.=20 Wkr, Sven Vermeulen --=20 Save some animals, eat a vegetarian. --zjcmjzIkjQU2rmur Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/RImrXfqz7M26L9sRAvYCAJ47SHd9LChtJTdNVB8i3f5OvV82xgCgg7G/ rPlLN5aSBl+X5gSu4cDSFhA= =+3N9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zjcmjzIkjQU2rmur--