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 1I94Nq-0007Dc-LK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:31:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6CJUNWJ000803; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:30:23 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6CJSMl7030972 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:28:23 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DEE88D3F8 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:23:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04761-09 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:23:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from snowflake (82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.57.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756238D30C for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:23:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:27:39 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3. Message-ID: <20070712202739.5d7c04e8@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <1184267678.26227.9.camel@localhost> References: <4690C4B8.4000407@gentoo.org> <1184264665.8615.4.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20070712193146.694917f6@snowflake> <200707121500.14681.vapier@gentoo.org> <20070712200736.2a79eaff@snowflake> <1184267678.26227.9.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.11; 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@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_V7RzX=MT=d9xyNKmNcieBPi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: f855139f-08a2-46d5-9528-465bbfab678b X-Archives-Hash: 000fd527bc67ddffb8abd568e7c6acc9 --Sig_V7RzX=MT=d9xyNKmNcieBPi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:14:38 -0400 Seemant Kulleen wrote: > What's the case here? Third-party ebuilds being contributed into the > tree via bugzilla and other means? Or third-party ebuilds from joe > shmoe off www.joeshmoesebuilds.com? >=20 > The second case is meaningless to Gentoo. The first case needs to be > considered. The question there, I suppose, is: do we *require* > contributors to license ebuilds as GPL-2? And if that is the case, > that's what stops them. Right. The second case is already covered by Gentoo policy. > It would be an interesting question, though, to prove that someone > wrote a from-scratch ebuild via looking only at the documentation, > and without basing any parts off of already existing ebuilds in the > tree, no? It'd be interesting to try to prove that they *did* copy it too... For a sufficiently trivial ebuild, it's entirely possible for a third party to come up with something that's very close to the in-tree ebuild, even if they did write it from scratch... Didn't someone (Seemant? I forget) have to 'provably' rewrite a few ebuilds that were in the tree a while ago? Wasn't there some issue with the copyright on ebuilds written by a former developer being something like "Copyright blah Gentoo and dude's_nick"? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_V7RzX=MT=d9xyNKmNcieBPi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGloCr96zL6DUtXhERAkp0AJ9OzrsYJuJfWrtsU/B/AUDA3NxgdACggQGV 8qgB93XCDnj54URqBI7ysbU= =2wP3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_V7RzX=MT=d9xyNKmNcieBPi-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list