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 1DsjMg-0004X3-1i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:41:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6DFeYTG007742; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:40:34 GMT Received: from ns3.osuosl.org (ns3.osuosl.org [140.211.166.133]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6DFeXeu031468 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:40:34 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ns3.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C888286C2F; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:41:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns3.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ns1.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01957-54; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.osuosl.org (shell.osuosl.org [140.211.166.149]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ns3.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2BB286C2E; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:41:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Deedra Waters To: Donnie Berkholz cc: gentoo-trustees@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] copyright stuff In-Reply-To: <1121254407.7209.7.camel@supernova.lan.local> Message-ID: References: <1121254407.7209.7.camel@supernova.lan.local> 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 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at osuosl.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 tagged_above=-999.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: bce680fe-c30e-483c-aadd-9487fa779358 X-Archives-Hash: f97a8931d20aaadaab02790bfcde01e8 It lets gentoo retain full ownership of things while letting the devs who write code etc own what they write. Call it a co-ownership so to speak. On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:33:27 -0700 > From: Donnie Berkholz > To: gentoo-trustees@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] copyright stuff > > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 14:58 -0700, Deedra Waters wrote: > > 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 makes sense to me, since the vast majority of ebuilds aren't really > copyrightable anyway. > > > 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. > > I don't understand this. Could you clarify? > > > 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. > > I'm a little confused about what exactly you're proposing. Is it an > exclusive license, assigning a share of the rights or something else > altogether? > > Thanks, > Donnie > -- Deedra Waters - Gentoo developer relations, accessibility and infrastructure - dmwaters@gentoo.org Gentoo linux: http://www.gentoo.org -- gentoo-trustees@gentoo.org mailing list