Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

[Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 05:35:22PM +0100, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote:
> El 18/11/12 04:39, Greg KH escribió:
> > Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch
> > that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal
> > under all countries that follow the "normal" body of Copyright Law.  It
> > should be removed right now before someone gets into trouble, not the
> > least of which would be the orginization that the copyright is now being
> > attributed to.
> So I made a mistake coming out from a missunderstanding on a commit on a
> branch that didn't even get merged since I was expecting approval from
> somebody else before that. Cool. The amount of damage caused by this
> action is around the same as publishing a patch and not applying it.

Not really, having it in the repo worried a lot of people, as it was not
an acceptable thing to do.

> > Come on people, this is basic copyright law, it's not something
> > radically new.  It's something that _all_ software developers should
> > know, either from school, or any company they have ever worked at.
> Check european copyright laws please, they are quite different from
> yours. I at least have had to read and understand the spanish copyright
> laws a few times and its not funny. So please don't speak of a "normal"
> body of copyright law there is not such thing and some of us have enough
> with the "normalizations" USA based lobbies are trying  to impose on ours.

I know all about European copyright laws, and if you do, I am supprised
that you changed the files in this manner, as you really can't give up
your copyright in Europe like you can in the USA.  So by adding the
Foundation's copyright here, a USA-based company, it is quite strange.

Anyway, the commit is gone, which is good, thank you for deleting the
branch.  Please be more careful about doing such things in the future.
We really don't want to get the Foundation in trouble by doing this type
of thing.

thanks,

greg k-h