From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] non-Gentoo stuff in our CVS
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:47:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041010214706.3941aecf@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410102037.00546.luke-jr@utopios.org>
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:36:57 +0000 Luke-Jr <luke-jr@utopios.org> wrote:
| On Sunday 10 October 2004 9:37 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
| > I feel that it is our best interest if developer made patches are
| > assigned to gentoo, but we could also do it by simple copyright
| > assignment (e.g. putting a header on the patch which says Copyright
| > Gentoo Foundation 200x)
|
| Doing this would prevent such patches from being submitted upstream to
| projects with just as absurd a policy (copyright assigned to only
| them). This kind of policy really prevents open source from being any
| better than proprietary software-- if both projects require exclusive
| ownership of the code, then either one or the other can use it, not
| both.--
No, it just means that the patches in question would have to go in
mirror://gentoo/ rather than in ${FILESDIR}.
--
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips)
Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-07 20:59 [gentoo-dev] non-Gentoo stuff in our CVS Donnie Berkholz
2004-10-07 22:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-10-08 11:47 ` Chris Bainbridge
2004-10-08 14:04 ` Jon Portnoy
2004-10-08 15:27 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-10-08 15:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-10-08 15:42 ` Jon Portnoy
2004-10-08 16:28 ` Greg KH
2004-10-08 16:36 ` Jon Portnoy
2004-10-10 9:37 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-10-10 18:48 ` Anthony Gorecki
2004-10-10 20:36 ` Luke-Jr
2004-10-10 20:47 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2004-10-10 21:16 ` Luke-Jr
2004-10-11 10:47 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-10-10 22:07 ` Daniel Drake
2004-10-08 17:20 ` Chris Bainbridge
2004-10-08 14:23 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-10-08 16:21 ` Sven Vermeulen
2004-10-09 14:13 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2004-10-09 17:33 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-10-10 0:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2004-10-10 9:38 ` [gentoo-dev] " Paul de Vrieze
2004-10-30 2:50 ` Aron Griffis
2004-10-30 5:08 ` Aron Griffis
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