From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I7bxP-0005Gg-IY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:58:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l68Iv89w025202; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:57:08 GMT Received: from blob.mailstation.de (www2.mailstation.de [87.139.47.139]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l68ItHKM022964 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:55:17 GMT Received: from janus.mailstation.de (janus.mailstation.de [192.168.168.10]) by blob.mailstation.de (8.14.1/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l68It8J2012600 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:55:11 +0200 From: "Wulf C. Krueger" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3. Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:52:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1183832495.20203.11.camel@SOLACE> <20070708155119.06c1d41a@snowflake> <20070708181531.GA8235@boostbox.mill1.nb.home.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070708181531.GA8235@boostbox.mill1.nb.home.nl> 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@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5614442.5CRv1aRJYf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707082052.56881.philantrop@gentoo.org> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (blob.mailstation.de [192.168.168.30]); Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:55:11 +0200 (CEST) X-mailstation-de-MailScanner-Information: Scanned using: F-Prot, ClamAv, Bitdefender X-mailstation-de-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-mailstation-de-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-mailstation-de-MailScanner-From: philantrop@gentoo.org X-mailstation-de-MailScanner-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 1df9bc77-159c-4786-b8c1-5cf52f9e0b10 X-Archives-Hash: 5f0550a2394030d2a5ea77519e221f3f --nextPart5614442.5CRv1aRJYf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 08. July 2007 20:15:31 Harald van D=C4=B3k 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=20 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.=20 It's probably *meant* to say that the Foundation will never switch to a=20 closed-source model but it shouldn't rule out switching to GPL-3 should=20 that turn out to be desirable. Best regards, Wulf --nextPart5614442.5CRv1aRJYf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGkTKInuVXRcSi+5oRAh56AKDJXkh3v714qD1BzU3PST+hRzT7uwCfcTtM QwLq2Cv4W4byL850gHA2yXo= =iQ1b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5614442.5CRv1aRJYf-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list