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 53DC51381F3 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:41:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE44B21C016; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:41:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 94B5521C00B for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:40:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.132] (CPE002401f30b73-CM001cea3ddad8.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.242.65.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: axs) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A356F33D835 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <50AB8863.9040902@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:40:51 -0500 From: Ian Stakenvicius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121112 Thunderbird/16.0.2 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 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> <20121119043435.GA29867@kroah.com> <50AA2912.2000003@opensource.dyc.edu> <20651.19641.620270.655068@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <20651.19641.620270.655068@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7b1bc18e-ee8a-49ba-9578-7195a3f3cd28 X-Archives-Hash: a50bc49ac6ab277f35cdf2275edc3520 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 20/11/12 04:26 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anthony G Basile wrote: > >> The other levels are files and projects. So this leads to the >> other confusion, do you touch every file in the project when >> forking etc. > >> The answer appears to be that a file is the unit, but from >> practice I've seen all three. What is correct is what passes in >> the courts and I do not want to, nor have I ever, tested that. >> [...] > > The FSF appears to take the standpoint that the project as a whole > is the unit. In their "Information for maintainers of GNU software" > [1] there is the following paragraph: > > | To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you > have | made nontrivial changes to the package. [...] When you add > the new | year, it is not required to keep track of which files > have seen | significant changes in the new year and which have not. > It is | recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in > the | package, and be done with it for the rest of the year. > > I've also found [2] which says that the above is based on legal > advice from Eben Moglen. > > Ulrich > > [1] > > > [2] > I did a quick scan; it seems though that this relates to updating the scope of a copyright that someone already holds? IE, not necessarily relating to the transfer of copyright.... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlCriGMACgkQ2ugaI38ACPCJXgEAkQK/EIYoqGWFOhy1tz0Di2zY eV/Gg3w698Qz7f4iZygA/1hfBqd2vcVTyG2gaBw0G+/NnRjZkC6Ob/Njsivi5ZBv =msje -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----