From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4180 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2004 16:01:48 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 8 Jan 2004 16:01:48 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AecbU-0007bq-Lo for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:01:48 +0000 Received: (qmail 21464 invoked by uid 50004); 8 Jan 2004 15:59:34 +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 16258 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2004 15:59:34 +0000 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:59:33 -0500 From: Jon Portnoy To: Thomas de Grenier de Latour Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040108155932.GA25424@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <200401071613.51986.C.J.Bainbridge@ed.ac.uk> <20040107163601.GA16315@cerberus.oppresses.us> <20040108113751.474edf7f@wallace> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040108113751.474edf7f@wallace> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright attribution? X-Archives-Salt: 743cc8e5-9a74-478c-ad17-f5d003e75691 X-Archives-Hash: 5450b861b166f513f89bf4c7e5eb9c62 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 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. -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list