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 4015A1381F3 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:17:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20F06E0678; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-da0-f53.google.com (mail-da0-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 67D3F21C0A0 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:16:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-da0-f53.google.com with SMTP id g9so2225168dad.40 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:16:35 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=d8zgCfaQNDXas9mRaBpEfNhhZ72LXxHnJPnB41gLe5w=; b=RDOr9BTcrT62GZx0CnsOn67D1R9XBeZevan5U2t+5pIqhwi5aoTI2EBc25O4kTzAAt CfxjMoasTIXHTWghqbBQmbyFXbsLVAJcXv6XpHdZCHZt9lSMi88R6OSgDjkQYk9GCi3o t/lYNLm0SwzWCiqSj5lwECmnjRx6KVGdPDKNpLHzaL7erf0i6dnl6h/l/P7vZJm9T6Zh DMDQRqd+d8gh2hndbpzhGNkU0vaRUl7gbyPPkIv2/Tm0K8RR1MInTxZbuzmi5RhSFvwc fGXZLZ1UlmkXfDZgyPURmITW61KFUNKjw5mspzrVFN1MSEWasjWbfQTpRz4oKVFZrXGe ye1g== Received: by 10.66.81.138 with SMTP id a10mr552061pay.53.1353348995237; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:16:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from saladin.home.flameeyes.eu ([2001:470:d:ce2:226:b9ff:fed7:bf1f]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ai8sm6571130pbd.14.2012.11.19.10.16.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:16:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50AA777A.6060400@flameeyes.eu> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:16:26 -0800 From: =?UTF-8?B?RGllZ28gRWxpbyBQZXR0ZW7Dsg==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121027 Thunderbird/16.0.1 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?) References: <20121106212816.GE82762@gentoo.org> <20121117190207.GY83592@gentoo.org> <20121118032922.GA2335@kroah.com> <20121119025820.GA29497@kroah.com> <20121119043054.GC29764@kroah.com> <20121119170653.GC4393@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn3UDJlBXgCaZR4N58cAeuHMXuRAxi8TGH045IExunWrf3Y64xA3RWI/RHLbc6d02XVIH79 X-Archives-Salt: 54b2c319-2981-4b09-8c53-685e1e8c62e9 X-Archives-Hash: 89d079af72ce2a41d308bd35ae5f2ce6 On 19/11/2012 10:06, Rich Freeman wrote: > So, I give you a file. Then I tell you IN WRITING that you can go > ahead and remove my name from the copyright line if you want to. > > I think it would be hard for me to argue that I should be able to > obtain damages when I gave you authorization to remove my name. You're trying to navigate extremely difficult and varying waters. Remember that under most European copyright laws (under "author's rights", which includes Germany, France and Italy at the very least), you can't even have "public domain", as long as you're alive. Which is why things like WTFPL came up to be. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flameeyes@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/