Re: [gentoo-trustees] copyright stuff

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins.daniel@gmail.com>]

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Hi guys,
 I'm still on this list. You can remove me if you want, though. (If you're 
going to, please send me a
courtesy email to let me know when I've been bumped)
 My advice is to define a clear goal. What are you trying to accomplish? 
Then, talk to your lawyers about
some practical steps you can take to get as close to this goal as you can. 
Your lawyers can help you 
to determine what tradeoffs, if any, should be considered. 
 You might also want to ask your lawyers their opinion about how important 
they think this copyright
issue actually is. If it's very important, it might be worthwhile upsetting 
and potentially losing some
developers to fix it. If it isn't that important, then it might not be. 
Maybe there are some key areas that
you could straighten out more easily (like the Portage code itself) and then 
others you could at least 
temporarily ignore due to their complexity. I'm thinking of the actual 
ebuilds being a very complex issue.
Which is more likely to be ripped off? This should all factor into your 
plan.
 I have tried to tackle this issue in the past, and it is harder than it 
looks. I think I would have been more
successful if I had tried to straighten out copyrights for some key areas of 
Gentoo rather than try to tackle
everything at once. Ebuilds are particularly thorny because so many people 
have touched them. 
If fixing all the ebuilds is an impossible goal, then maybe focus on the 
possible instead?
 I hope you can find a good solution. If you're ever in need of any 
additional paperwork from me, please
let me know.
 -Daniel
 On 6/27/05, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote: 
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> Deedra Waters wrote:
> > I'd suggest the license. I suspect that as long as the terms are right,
> > that people won't have problems with the license. Trying to maintain
> > both a copyright, and a license would cause a lot of problems, and a
> > copyright is much harder to handle since we would have to get anyone
> > under 18 to get their parents to sign the thing etc etc etc.
> 
> People under 18 can't consent to a license any more than an assignment,
> so I don't understand your last point. But yes, maintaining both would
> be more work. The question is: Is it worth it?
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> Thanks,
> Donnie
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