From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5CE16138334 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D177E0817; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:44:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pg1-f195.google.com (mail-pg1-f195.google.com [209.85.215.195]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D1E31E0636 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:44:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pg1-f195.google.com with SMTP id y18-v6so6186515pge.0 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:44:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=3NClCnprzmenzq4gpltKGDr4VIBw4iVp5BlORiSARo0=; b=UOlHdAVePRcMgkuDLrq04EpjhAeqP2vK2GqCx/LvDf5sRTBnoszczvAl4lXk3n7xd7 qJGd0HKH1cFUdiKE2RMLYGf3ax9XKTfAWnC6Uz06jjchMYlstc7h3WuaaDQguIFNXg/w jndes6cli/Yeo/oLAsfgUWJo4YeGUwksx3KvV1U6yNT5fU/VZ6QjBoI90gf62eIikten 1RLyraX+HjrnxZjQm8dcBqGw56dXUsdpaTCE200TDBoHKScUBliCu+s1/D8VS1E9NlMf Y7nfeC71d85YET53XrLmlnnynlrsPHlUi8Qca5bT+p5koF/QgkYNf37/VQ3+sGGUWa1n iVxw== X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfoiznJzMBy6td6t6zpHUeycQYxf3VNGe/RDTT1g71Rd8uxLkUlYR VZnUIBD+2H+di1n82gzF2irtlvN+CkCB03VcQxZWRQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV61AEuKgCURjADblBSUmeaKq8tsYPPYwvNGYSMnG8l+3DTUAJ2vtltQ/vRafOf/0A3XaohrnZAQW8QBbvT0PgR4= X-Received: by 2002:a65:4d03:: with SMTP id i3-v6mr6396249pgt.239.1539366277005; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:44:37 -0700 (PDT) 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 References: <20180930140524.015249f0@sf> <20181011153139.7700484dc6c452ed570df66a@gentoo.org> <20181012002407.cdc9701a0dbcabef36edff56@gentoo.org> <20181012125200.GA2026@linux1.home> In-Reply-To: From: Rich Freeman Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:44:25 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-10-14 To: gentoo-project Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: fdb7bfd1-cd42-4283-a02a-7fca4503b00e X-Archives-Hash: 76fe7c8a25cd2b35f31b8ca8b7ad0035 On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 1:27 PM Ulrich Mueller 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