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From: "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:49:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <862880af-7a13-bf5d-0762-4c86776bed9c@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_=M1j6cswwpvGy_8EVXJ1vixMx6Vpef4wCdNKbO4GeS0Q@mail.gmail.com>


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On 25/10/2016 01:03, Rich Freeman wrote:
> As long as you have their permission to change the copyright notice.
> You cannot currently commit anything with a different copyright notice
> to gentoo.git, and you cannot legally change it without permission.

How should that permission be documented?

Is a statement the original author consents sufficient?

Paweł



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-25 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-24 22:29 [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions Matt Turner
2016-10-24 22:52 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-24 23:03 ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-24 23:12   ` Matt Turner
2016-10-24 23:18     ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-24 23:31       ` Matt Turner
2016-10-24 23:43         ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-24 23:47           ` Matt Turner
2016-10-25  1:12             ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-25  4:48       ` Daniel Campbell
2016-10-25 10:37         ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-25 12:54           ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-10-25 13:17             ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-25 13:56               ` Alexis Ballier
2016-10-25 14:15                 ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-25 15:17                   ` Alexis Ballier
2016-10-25 16:18                     ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-25 15:53               ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-10-25 16:23                 ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-25 10:49   ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr. [this message]
2016-10-25 11:16     ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-27 10:27 ` Mart Raudsepp

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