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

[Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>]

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On 11/17/2012 11:28 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote:
>> On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Please fix this now.
>>
>> klondike discussed the copyright branch changes with robbat2 before they
>> started and there was no problem at the time. We have retained all
>> copyright notices and looking at the branch, I find nothing objectionable.
> 
> Seriously?
> 
> Look at the comment I made on that commit for details, but here it is
> again:
> 
> You can not claim copyright on a file you did not do one of the two
> things:
>   - create yourself
>   - modify in a "major" manner
> 
> Adding a comment at the top saying it is part of the eudev project and
> covered under the LGPL2+ does not meet either of these requirements at
> all.
> 
> By merely importing a file into a new project, you can not claim
> copyright on it.  That's the law.  The fact that this was reviewed by
> someone makes me seriously wonder about the copyright policies of the
> Gentoo Foundation.
> 
> Also, you can not assign copyright to a third party, unless you have a
> copyright assignment form.  Do the developers doing this work have such
> a form assigned?  And in what country and state is that form valid for?
> Different countries, and states, have different laws here, and
> one-form-fits-all is not true anywhere.
> 
> So blindly adding a Gentoo Foundation copyright to _any_ file in this
> repo, that has not met one of the two above rules, is illegal, and
> grounds for opening the Gentoo Foundation up to big trouble.
> 
>> Would you mind joining us in IRC to discuss your concerns?
> 
> I don't do IRC anymore, sorry.  Email is the best way to reach me.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thanks for clarifying that. It will be fixed before it goes into HEAD.


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