From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Bad license and attribution by ChromiumOS and CoreOS
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:21:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21774.31608.991231.452934@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150322083639.2d70fdd0@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net>
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>>>>> 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.
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".
IANAL, TINLA
Ulrich
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-07 2:22 [gentoo-project] Bad license and attribution by ChromiumOS and CoreOS Patrick Lauer
2015-03-07 3:46 ` Alex Brandt
2015-03-07 3:55 ` Andrew Savchenko
2015-03-07 4:13 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-07 13:44 ` Sven Vermeulen
2015-03-07 8:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-03-07 9:05 ` Andrew Savchenko
2015-03-07 12:09 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-07 14:27 ` Anthony G. Basile
2015-03-22 7:36 ` Jeroen Roovers
2015-03-22 8:21 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2015-03-22 12:14 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-22 16:22 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-03-22 16:25 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-03-22 18:08 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-03-11 6:11 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-03-07 9:33 ` Matthias Maier
2015-03-07 19:11 ` [gentoo-project] " Alec Warner
2015-03-11 5:22 ` Andrew Savchenko
2015-03-11 8:32 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2015-03-13 0:37 ` Alec Warner
2015-03-13 4:41 ` [gentoo-project] " Mike Frysinger
2015-03-13 7:46 ` Alexander Berntsen
2015-03-13 10:30 ` Andrew Savchenko
2015-03-13 11:26 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-13 22:17 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-13 22:29 ` Andrew Savchenko
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