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 21:12:38 Harald van Dijk wrote:
> > "# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation"
> > Thus, the copyright owner/holder is the Gentoo Foundation.
> If I write an ebuild today, why does it not say "Copyright 2007"? 

Probably because different legal systems require different formats of the 
copyright notice. Over here, "copyright 2007" would be fully sufficient.

> It's because the copyright notice applies to skel.ebuild and/or the 
> tree as a whole. Whether it also applies to the individual 
> contributions is what I'm curious about.

TTBOMK, it applies to each and every individual ebuild. The tree itself 
doesn't seem to have a separate copyright notice and I see no need for it 
either.

As for contributions without a clear copyright notice, it would, IMHO, be 
best to make sure (e. g. by adding some legal blah to Bugzilla) they're 
original works to be licenced under (currently) the GPL-2 or derived from 
a product with a compatible licence by the contributor.

> If you can give a clear way to separate licenses which should be
> allowable, from those which should not, then please share. 

Sorry, that's both beyond my legal knowledge and my sphere of interest. :)

I think we all agree that ebuilds should be released under an open source 
licence. That's good enough for me. :-)

Best regards, Wulf

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