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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
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-10 20:51 UTC|newest]

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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