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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 19:08:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21775.1300.140988.308182@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150322162556.GP4504@vapier>

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>>>>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On 22 Mar 2015 09:21, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> It doesn't work like this in our case. The Portage tree is licensed
>> under the GPL-2.

Sorry, this wasn't as precise as it should have been. I should have
written "ebuilds in the Portage tree" here.

>> 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.

Ulrich

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-22 18:08 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
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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