Deedra Waters wrote: [Tue Jul 12 2005, 04:58:56PM CDT]
> 1. We only worry about copyrighting code that gentoo actually owns,
> mainly catalyst, portage, the installer and things  like that.
> Also any documentation that gentoo has written along with the utilities
> that may have been written for portage etc etc.

That should make life much simpler.  

> 2. it would be a co-ownership basically, meaning thatif i wrote
> documentation or parts of documentation, i would retain the rights to
> those docs, but gentoo owns the entire thing.

Seems reasonable.

> 3. only gentoo would have the ability to sue. This is more a legal
> thing, but basically it's so that if we ever had to go into law to
> defend the copyright, the other person can't force us to drag  all of
> our developers into court.

Although I think it's reasonable in principle, I would feel better if I
had a better idea of what exactly is involved.  Who would need to sign
some sort of co-ownership document?  Since we're still dealing with
copyright, does this method solve the problems with under-age or non-US
citizens who cannot turn over copyright?  

-g2boojum-
-- 
Grant Goodyear	
Gentoo Developer
g2boojum@gentoo.org
http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum
GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0  9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76