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[66.68.48.101]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q19sm12105542otc.60.2018.11.15.07.35.38 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 15 Nov 2018 07:35:38 -0800 (PST) Sender: William Hubbs Received: (nullmailer pid 18664 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:35:37 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 09:35:37 -0600 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Patrick McLean , ulm@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: copyright attribution clarifications Message-ID: <20181115153537.GB18539@linux1.home> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org, Patrick McLean , ulm@gentoo.org References: <20181113183242.GA26771@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <20181114024643.GA15537@linux1.home> <20181114114739.23491a58@scorpius> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="R3G7APHDIzY6R/pk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Archives-Salt: 3bb17160-c0f0-4d61-9e76-604cf707855f X-Archives-Hash: c6ee5d55274faf8c556217c99c0710b2 --R3G7APHDIzY6R/pk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 07:49:37AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Patrick McLean wrote: >=20 > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:24:08 +0100 > > Ulrich Mueller wrote: >=20 > >> To say it again, ebuilds have a copyright notice for exactly two > >> reasons: > >>=20 > >> - to protect us against the "innocent infringement" defense under > >> U.S. law, and > >>=20 > >> - because the GPL-2 requires in section 1 to "appropriately publish > >> on each copy an appropriate copyright notice". > >>=20 > >> For both of these, it is irrelevant what the precise contents of the > >> notice is. If you made a significant contribution to the file, then > >> you can claim copyright for it, even if there is no copyright notice > >> at all, of if you aren't mentioned in it. > >>=20 > >> IANAL, but I think the case for being listed there explicitly is very > >> weak. >=20 > > Is accepting contributions form entities that require it a good > > argument? Is this really worth losing valuable contributions over? >=20 > *Why* would they require it? Is there any legal reason that I've > missed? In what way would an explicit copyright line help in a legal > dispute? =20 Here is what the copyright office has to say about copyright notices: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf William --R3G7APHDIzY6R/pk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTVeuxEZo4uUHOkQAluVBb0MMRlOAUCW+2SSQAKCRBuVBb0MMRl ODegAJ9P+A2+45UcHPq0YGPbEThodCt0IQCggERhynlWM59g88VBiKW2XvWQGQw= =QlYG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --R3G7APHDIzY6R/pk--