From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1RHEBEj023165 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:14:11 GMT Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.42) id 1D5Rzd-00077h-Bx for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:14:09 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5RzF-0002kv-HJ for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:13:45 +0000 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:13:41 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright assignment and ownership (again) Message-ID: <20050227171341.64708a0b@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050227123547.GA14936@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <200502260502.12277.anthony@ectrolinux.com> <20050227123547.GA14936@cerberus.oppresses.us> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Sun__27_Feb_2005_17_13_41_+0000_Gf7VL/x7KDOZ899+"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: 92f59658-85dc-4ae9-ba5c-6c036ee91fa9 X-Archives-Hash: 15ada304a03d4f2310a3c9670cf11490 --Signature_Sun__27_Feb_2005_17_13_41_+0000_Gf7VL/x7KDOZ899+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:35:47 -0500 Jon Portnoy wrote: | On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 05:02:06AM -0800, Anthony Gorecki wrote: | >=20 | > Heated flames and constructive discussion are welcome. |=20 | How about we just realize that ebuilds aren't really copyrightable=20 | content to begin with most of the time, call it quits, pull the=20 | copyright notices, and be done with the whole thing? How about we recognise that individual ebuilds aren't worth anything and that the tree *as a whole* should be copyrighted as a single work? # This file is part of the Gentoo Portage tree, which is Copyright (c) # 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation, and distributed under the terms of the # GNU GPL v2. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Sun__27_Feb_2005_17_13_41_+0000_Gf7VL/x7KDOZ899+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCIf/I96zL6DUtXhERAsV1AKCbmSOIRueatavX1TqplpXoxm24WgCg1TSn cmxmwKbb3V2PkGwC9H8kvxg= =ONul -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sun__27_Feb_2005_17_13_41_+0000_Gf7VL/x7KDOZ899+-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list