[gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright attribution?

[gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright attribution?

[Chris Bainbridge]

Daniel Robbins said in August:

"I've been trying to get people to keep their names in the copyright line for
over a year, but no one has really started doing it. To my knowledge, it is
better to have multiple official copyright holders for GPL code than just a
single copyright holder. I would like all our ebuilds to have a copyright
like this:

# Copyright 2003 Gentoo Technologies, Joe User, and others (see cvs
# changelog.) Distributed under the GPL version 2.

I don't see why this would be a problem for anyone, and makes a lot more
sense than what we are doing now."

Since then I've submitted all my ebuilds with dual copyright lines, but never 
once been accepted as that. I've been told that the automated tools don't 
like a different line, and that "Seemant says "dual copyrights" are only 
accepted for special circumstances, e.g. when you're employed to do the work 
by an external entitity". 

On another note, it would be nice to see ebuilds accepted if there are no bug 
reports after a while.. I have ebuilds for new packages still sitting in 
bugzilla after half a year.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright attribution?

[Jon Portnoy]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:13:51PM +0000, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> Daniel Robbins said in August:
> 

In another post in that thread, he said that he had consulted with his 
lawyer and dual copyrights were, indeed, a bad idea.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright attribution?

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:36:01 -0500
Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 
> In another post in that thread, he said that he had consulted with his
> lawyer and dual copyrights were, indeed, a bad idea.
> 

Hi,

I couldn't find this other post in my gentoo-dev archives. Could you
please quote it? Or, Daniel, could you reexplain the why please? That's
not that I want to restart this discussion, but I remember that in
August I had the fealing that it was not really concluded, and it seems
that I was not the only one. Also, I'm curious about the disavantages of
shared copyrights in US laws, because in France, it is really a good
thing, with no drawback I can think of. 

Thanks a lot to take time to explain this again.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright attribution?

[Alexander Futasz]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:36:01 -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:13:51PM +0000, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> > Daniel Robbins said in August:
> > 
> 
> In another post in that thread, he said that he had consulted with his
> lawyer and dual copyrights were, indeed, a bad idea.

Can you please link us? I didn't found this.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright attribution?

[John Nilsson]

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www.groklaw.net would be a good starting point...

/John

On 01/08/04 11:37:51, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:36:01 -0500
> Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > In another post in that thread, he said that he had consulted with his
> > lawyer and dual copyrights were, indeed, a bad idea.
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I couldn't find this other post in my gentoo-dev archives. Could you
> please quote it? Or, Daniel, could you reexplain the why please? That's
> not that I want to restart this discussion, but I remember that in
> August I had the fealing that it was not really concluded, and it seems
> that I was not the only one. Also, I'm curious about the disavantages of
> shared copyrights in US laws, because in France, it is really a good
> thing, with no drawback I can think of.
> 
> Thanks a lot to take time to explain this again.
> 
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> 
> 

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright attribution?

[Jon Portnoy]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:37:51AM +0100, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:36:01 -0500
> Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In another post in that thread, he said that he had consulted with his
> > lawyer and dual copyrights were, indeed, a bad idea.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I couldn't find this other post in my gentoo-dev archives. Could you
> please quote it? Or, Daniel, could you reexplain the why please? That's
> not that I want to restart this discussion, but I remember that in
> August I had the fealing that it was not really concluded, and it seems
> that I was not the only one. Also, I'm curious about the disavantages of
> shared copyrights in US laws, because in France, it is really a good
> thing, with no drawback I can think of. 
> 

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/copyright-assignment.xml explains 
pretty much everything.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright attribution?

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:59:33 -0500
Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/copyright-assignment.xml explains
> pretty much everything.
> 

Thanks, and sorry for not having thought this could be documented on the
website. That's exactly the kind of explanation I was looking for. 

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