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 789C7138334 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 07:47:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72D6CE08C8; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 07:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (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 3956FE08B0 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 07:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15 (host2092.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ulm) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 69C24335CD2; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 07:46:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Ulrich Mueller To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] GLEP 76: Copyright Policy [v4] References: <23325.35685.793702.267278@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <23337.15822.698153.812236@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <14e33478-835e-33ec-5d68-5ccb05fb2a9d@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 09:46:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <14e33478-835e-33ec-5d68-5ccb05fb2a9d@gmail.com> (kuzetsa@gmail.com's message of "Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:39:48 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 8d3f32c5-aa20-4b27-8b43-7283711ed2d8 X-Archives-Hash: c25d5438835c501dc6529f10a74a5c6b --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain >>>>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, kuzetsa wrote: > Summary / emphasis: the copyright protection for a > legal entity or pseudonymous author (copyright holder) > may also have validity outside the copyright holder or > author's jurisdiction under the berne convention. A work is protected by copyright even if it doesn't carry any copyright notice at all. Our policy requires a notice mainly to protect us against a possible "innocent infringement" defense under U.S. law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice#Reasons_to_include_an_optional_copyright_notice IANAL, but as I understand it, the requirements for the name that appears in a copyright notice are rather lax, and your quote from the Berne convention seems to confirm that. Also there is nothing in the GLEP's wording that would forbid the use of a pseudonym in the copyright notice, as long as it will qualify as an identifier of the copyright holder. (The Signed-off-by line is a different issue, though.) Ulrich --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEZlHkP3TnuTbxrN0HwwkGhRxhwnMFAluvLeMACgkQwwkGhRxh wnO+HQf+MtFj39zLi1Qg7GaJGpULkNkmPglpnRuuRdztyv8zJ2xRR34Wu26aeTez h7GtqFAv2K5soHHR4OPbVFcUk53ydBmdvLxX8sp939UsZM0AcDovvhiVLQ8R8u2U Bl73hJs6RnJSMZQeMKwSqcjdsDH0zy/b7MNmNgYTRJO7/qz8JpZGCkPGMkIMF1BQ yLSe4fPhkOBHbS71CVLJ3Q6e8EV4GjG0m2DyddGcKCJvHCq34aYPWslFw67Ge8VN //CO4AgwHckuTMaTCaCDO3Sf7l5PYSDtgp2qMlybFAEhXXJKUJIeafkX5rNvaOUD tiRaagOZI8Ducy0UkFOr+NCBB3P8jw== =wReC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--