From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E18351381F3 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:34:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE4A1E0527; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:34:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.19.201]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803F721C112 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47014201E5; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:33:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (c-67-168-183-230.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [67.168.183.230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4A47420168; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:34:35 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Richard Yao Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?) Message-ID: <20121119043435.GA29867@kroah.com> References: <20121106212816.GE82762@gentoo.org> <20121117190207.GY83592@gentoo.org> <20121118032922.GA2335@kroah.com> <20121119025820.GA29497@kroah.com> <50A9AFF1.50306@gentoo.org> <20121119042252.GA29675@kroah.com> <50A9B3C0.1060202@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50A9B3C0.1060202@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Archives-Salt: be4da159-e0b0-4e29-868a-cca1448590b9 X-Archives-Hash: 672bef7830dc99916f05a8fe52190c27 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:21:20PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/18/2012 11:22 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:05:05PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > >> On 11/18/2012 09:58 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > >> We develop open source software in public repositories. A developer > >> decided it would be helpful to change the software name systemd to > >> eudev, among other things, in various files after misunderstanding what > >> the Foundation officers in charge of legal matters had approved. You > >> objected to it. I asked for clarification after seeing that your name > >> had not been removed from any copyright notices. You explained your > >> complaint. I asked you to wait for the person who wrote the commit to > >> fix it. It was fixed. > >> > >> That is all that was necessary. Whining on the list did not wake the > >> author of that commit sooner. Furthermore, the changes that you wanted > >> would have been made in a few days had you not become involved. > > > > None of the words you wrote here seem to me to be related to my response > > about copyright, the Gentoo Foundation, and how copyright works for > > software projects at all. So I'm a bit confused, what are you concerned > > about here? > > > > greg k-h > > Your issue has been resolved. You can stop beating the dead horse now. I was responding to a discussion about how copyright works, and how it should be marked as such for Gentoo-related projects, that was not correct in my knowledge of copyright law. It had nothing to do with "my issue", or the udev issue at all, which is why I even changed the subject. Oh well. *plonk*