Re: [gentoo-project] Bad license and attribution by ChromiumOS and CoreOS

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On 22 Mar 2015 09:21, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2015, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> > Better yet, you can claim copyright on a "compilation" which is
> > probably what is effectively being done here. This is how people get
> > away with defending their copyright on publications of (slightly
> > modified/ abridged/ annotated, if at all) "compilations" of
> > centuries old works. Because copyright law.
> 
> It doesn't work like this in our case. The Portage tree is licensed
> under the GPL-2. If someone takes a subset of ebuilds from it, it will
> be a "derivative work" and it cannot be distributed under any license
> other than the GPL-2.

no, content is licensed, not directories.  you can't reasonably claim that all 
the various files/ (like patches we grab from elsewhere) are all under GPL-2- 
only.

> It is even doubtful if any third-party ebuilds added to such a tree
> could be under a different license. If such ebuilds inherit from a GPL
> licensed eclass or depend on (or are depended on by) other ebuilds,
> they cannot "be reasonably considered independent and separate works
> in themselves".

the combined work might be, but that doesn't mean the individual content itself 
can't be different.

-mike</personal opinion>

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