On Sunday, February 13, 2005 11:20 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > Well, you could also consider that the ebuilds all belong to the same > product -- portage tree. They share the same cvs module, to say > something in defense of this statement. Therefore, a new version of an > ebuild can be considered to be an update for the "portage tree" product.
I am not a lawyer, however I believe that the Portage tree constitutes a collective work rather than a derivative work. As a collective work (being the unitary whole), the snapshots could be copyrighted in the form you mentioned, but the individual packages would need to be copyrighted independently. Consider SourceForge: if one were to assemble all of the resources that it contains into an enormous tarball, it could be distributed as a collective work, but each of the individual software applications would still retain their own sets of copyright information. The same would apply to KDE, and so forth. -- Anthony Gorecki Ectro-Linux Foundation
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