Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

["Wulf C. Krueger" <philantrop@gentoo.org>]

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On Sunday, 08. July 2007 20:15:31 Harald van Dijk wrote:
> > No, you have to get permission of the copyright holders. Which, in
> > this case, is the Foundation.
> Could you back that up, please? I was looking for something to confirm
> or deny this myself, but didn't find anything.

It's in the copyright notice of every single ebuild:

"# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation"

Thus, the copyright owner/holder is the Gentoo Foundation. The Foundation 
can therefore decide to change the licence.

>   "Note that the Foundation would never change the license used for the
>    code or documentation, if that could be set in stone that would be
>    even better."
> Is this still relevant?

Hopefully not as it is, stated as simple as that, not very wise. 

It's probably *meant* to say that the Foundation will never switch to a 
closed-source model but it shouldn't rule out switching to GPL-3 should 
that turn out to be desirable.

Best regards, Wulf

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