From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20830 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Aug 2003 19:31:28 -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 10949 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2003 19:31:27 -0000 From: Brian Jackson To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:31:24 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20030821040916.GE26885@squish.home.loc> <20030821175645.GB8472@cerberus.oppresses.us> <200308211948.18792.C.J.Bainbridge@ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200308211948.18792.C.J.Bainbridge@ed.ac.uk> Organization: gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308211431.24127.iggy@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Why should copyright assignment be a requirement? X-Archives-Salt: c1d27232-ddc9-4785-bed1-e0802d166593 X-Archives-Hash: 29e0aad592435ff597a7333f8806e27e On Thursday 21 August 2003 01:48 pm, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > > > The GPL already states that. > > That is incorrect. See for example the Sistina GFS fiasco. GFS was a GPL > product which had contributor copyrights assigned to Sistina. Then they > decided to go closed source, taking all the user contributions with them. The original code (from before they closed the source) is still available GPL'ed, even from Sistina's own ftp server. The code was taken up by an opensource project, and lives on in the form of OpenGFS. Besides there is a big difference betweeen Sistina and Gentoo. --Brian Jackson > > > > I am unclear how copyright assignment is being done at the moment? I > > > have never been asked to assign copyright for any contributed ebuilds, > > > and I have never signed a contract with GTI, as far as I am concerned I > > > still have copyright on those GPL ebuilds. > > > > Only if you changed the copyright header to mention your name rather > > than Gentoo Technologies. > > Hmmm, I thought that copyright notice only applied to the header ;-) > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list