On Monday 14 February 2005 07:03, Anthony Gorecki wrote: > Second, in reference to displaying "Gentoo Foundation" as the copyright > holder, merely submitting an ebuild with that statement is not legally > sufficient to establish copyright ownership or disclamation of copyright.
As long as the person adding the copyright statement is the original creator, I don't see any good reason why it would be invalid. Any more formal a procedure would result in nothing being in the public domain (since p.d. is a complete disclaim of copyright), and that certainly is not the case. > Adding a GLEP for this issue may be helpful, however aside from that, what > actions should be taken to correct this problem? Seriously, I don't see why most ebuilds are even copyrighted. There are a few exceptions (GCC and eclasses, mainly), but most I have seen would be trivial to recreate from scratch. On the occasions that I write ebuilds, I usually just stick them in the public domain. -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ -- [email protected] mailing list
