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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:18:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_nX12uXP_uJuL9aLEnD+YNFXhPQabj1E0GCQwMkWKSsVw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384375774.3173.0@NeddySeagoon_SSD>

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org> wrote:
> The GPL obliges us to keep such patches around for three years, iirc.
> Don't we do that ?

Why?  We own the copyright on the patches (to whatever degree that
they're copyrightable), so we don't need a license to distribute them.
 If somebody else wants to redistribute our patches they need our
permission or they need to comply with whatever license we issue them
under (likely the same as the upstream license so that our users don't
have bindist issues).

The only thing we might need a license to redistribute are the parts
of the patch that we didn't change, and upstream already provides
those.

I don't think patches are a derivative work.  The result of applying
the patches to the original source is a derivative work, but we don't
distribute that - it only exists in a user's /var/tmp.

At least, that's my understanding of copyright.

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-13 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-13 18:58 [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors Francesco R.
2013-11-13 19:12 ` Rich Freeman
2013-11-13 20:49   ` Roy Bamford
2013-11-13 21:18     ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2013-11-15 13:17       ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-11-15 13:38         ` Rich Freeman
2013-11-15 15:24           ` Duncan
2013-11-15 15:59         ` Peter Stuge
2013-11-14  0:27   ` [gentoo-dev] " Tom Wijsman
2013-11-14 13:17   ` Francesco R.
2013-11-14 14:01     ` Rich Freeman
2013-11-14 13:19   ` Lars Wendler
2013-11-14 19:49     ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-11-13 19:16 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-11-14  4:38   ` Johann Schmitz
2013-11-14 13:09     ` Francesco R.

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