From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project <gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-10-14
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:44:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_k3TBTdZswjcxkT4u7Kebf5Wq9FMW_8z4u7dZ0xKW2+PA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w6gk1mnf52o.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de>
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 1:27 PM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> That would require us to constantly keep track if the entity listed in
> the notice is still the main copyright holder, and I cannot predict how
> much burden this would be for future maintenance.
>
Note that the intent here (for my part) was not to strictly monitor
this. If somebody points out "hey, you have the wrong name here" then
it can be fixed like any other bug. There really are no negative
legal consequences that I'm aware of if you don't have the largest
single copyright holder listed.
As far as I can tell the Linux kernel makes no effort at all to
maintain their copyright notices. If a file says "Copyright 1982 IBM"
and the entire file gets rewritten 14 times so not even a single word
of the original remains, chances are it says "Copyright 2018 IBM." I
imagine nobody cares enough to try to stay on top of this, because not
listing your name in no way waives any of your rights to the file.
--
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-12 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-30 13:05 [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-10-14 Sergei Trofimovich
2018-10-10 7:43 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-11 12:31 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-10-11 15:12 ` Brian Dolbec
2018-10-11 17:49 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-11 18:05 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-11 17:03 ` Alec Warner
2018-10-11 17:35 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-11 21:24 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-10-12 0:09 ` Alec Warner
2018-10-12 0:24 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-10-12 1:30 ` Sarah White
2018-10-12 6:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-12 12:52 ` William Hubbs
2018-10-12 17:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-12 17:44 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2018-10-13 3:32 ` desultory
2018-10-13 9:15 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-14 9:24 ` Mart Raudsepp
2018-10-14 15:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-14 17:08 ` William Hubbs
2018-10-14 17:21 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-11 17:29 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-11 21:09 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-10-11 21:28 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-12 1:25 ` Sarah White
2018-10-12 1:59 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-12 11:34 ` Sarah White
2018-10-12 12:40 ` Rich Freeman
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