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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement?
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:54:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23345.7747.959827.646836@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a9228f1-338e-06a3-f3f4-6b27eea71408@iee.org>

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>>>>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2018, M J Everitt wrote:

> By contrast, Gentoo is likely to have been cobbled together by a
> consensus of unqualified persons,

I would wish you would argue about the facts, instead of resorting to
an ad-hominem argument. Or, if you believe that you're not qualified
for the former, simply abstain from posting.

> and is quite unlikely to be defended in court, -should- it come to
> that (see recent legal case of McHardy et al).

See? Apparently all these "large organisations" with their highly
qualified lawyers hadn't understood the consequences of the
termination clause in section 4 of GPL-2, which is there since 1985.

(And yes, I am aware that they try to band-aid it by imposing
additional restrictions on top of the GPL.)

Ulrich

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-25 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-30 14:36 [gentoo-project] Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement? Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-30 17:45 ` Robin H. Johnson
2018-05-30 18:56   ` Rich Freeman
2018-05-30 22:02     ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-31  5:48   ` kuzetsa
2018-05-31 18:53     ` Ulrich Mueller
     [not found] ` <20180530182136.GB18004@kroah.com>
2018-05-30 21:44   ` [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] " Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-30 22:31     ` Rich Freeman
2018-05-30 22:44       ` Ulrich Mueller
     [not found]     ` <20180531070321.GC7744@kroah.com>
2018-05-31  9:34       ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-31 10:18       ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-31 10:23         ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-31 22:24     ` Jonas Stein
2018-05-31 22:27       ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-05-31 23:52         ` Raymond Jennings
2018-06-01  1:55           ` R0b0t1
2018-06-01  2:32             ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-01 11:49               ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-01  1:52       ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-04 12:35 ` [gentoo-project] " Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-04 12:44   ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
     [not found]   ` <20180625013334.GA28404@kroah.com>
2018-06-25  6:50     ` [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-core] " Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-25  7:02       ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
     [not found]       ` <20180625070525.GA6151@kroah.com>
2018-06-25  7:54         ` Ulrich Mueller
     [not found]           ` <20180625110540.GB3058@kroah.com>
2018-06-25 14:08             ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 14:37             ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-25 14:46               ` M. J. Everitt
2018-06-25 14:56                 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 15:53                   ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 16:50                     ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 19:02                       ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 20:13                         ` Michał Górny
2018-06-25 20:28                           ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
2018-06-25 20:33                           ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 20:31                     ` Alec Warner
2018-06-25 20:52                       ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 21:06                         ` Alec Warner
2018-06-25 21:06                         ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-25 22:10                           ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 23:55                     ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-25 16:54                 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2018-06-25 17:10                   ` M. J. Everitt
2018-06-25 17:37                     ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-09  9:02 ` [gentoo-project] " Ulrich Mueller

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