From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHlUT-0008Ge-NI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:01:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8KGtJJY027928; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:55:19 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8KGtJ88001404 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:55:19 GMT Received: from [65.115.53.39] (helo=[192.168.10.54]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EHlUR-0003i3-LT; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:01:07 +0000 Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-trustees] joint copyright agreement] From: Daniel Ostrow To: Grant Goodyear Cc: gentoo-trustees@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050920164953.GF12282@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> References: <1127226270.7845.25.camel@Memoria.anyarch.net> <20050920164953.GF12282@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: The Gentoo Foundation Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:57:12 -0400 Message-Id: <1127235432.7845.44.camel@Memoria.anyarch.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-trustees@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 22f0de5f-9e1b-495f-9f9e-5f4a8f753343 X-Archives-Hash: 58a2a381d50477bf387006e0a73a9acc On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 11:49 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > From: Seemant Kulleen > > How does this agreement play to things like that? If eselect goes on > > (and based on its technical merits, there is every reason that it > > should) to become the default tool in gentoo, then where does that leave > > us? I'm with Grant on this: I'm not convinced. > > Unsurprisingly, eselect was exactly what I was thinking about when I > raised that question. The other thing is that only code written after the agreement is signed is covered. This would mean that if eselect were to become and official project and it was decided that all official projects needed to have the protection of the foundation that any code written from that point forward would be covered under the agreement, not the code that came before. For a project as robust as eselect that would mean that until a fair few revisions happened most of the code would only be copyrighted to the original authors. I also believe that it should be up to the individual project whether they want to have their code protected. However, it is, (and I feel like a broken record here) an all or nothing deal for that project. Having only a few members of a project sign is futile. I'm just saying that I feel that copyright protection and official status should go hand in hand. I have no problem with the code being hosted on our infra, I do have a problem marking the code as official Gentoo code and having no way to protect it. -- Daniel Ostrow Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} dostrow@gentoo.org -- gentoo-trustees@gentoo.org mailing list