On Monday, February 14, 2005 5:02 am, Doug Goldstein wrote: > But to really answer your question, all ebuilds originiate from the > ebuild.skel file, which so far as received some attention every year > from 1999, so in fact an ebuild is not born in 2004 or 2005 for a new > package. It was born in 1999.
As I originally stated, that's indeed one possibility that can be argued. > As far as your statement on copyright assignment, if you're country does > not permit copyright assignment then you should not submit ebuilds. > Simple as that. It's not a matter of being /allowed/ to assign copyrights, but rather a matter of whether the copyrights /are/ assigned. If you've signed and mailed-in the copyright assignment agreement that Gentoo provides, there shouldn't be any problems with work you submit. If you haven't, there is a problem. As far as I know, there is no stringent checking of the newly submitted ebuilds to see whether such a form has been received from the author of the work. > The Gentoo Foundation copyright is there for a reason, > so the Portage tree remains unencumbered by numerous copyrights. In the > past people would have their own copyright notices up there and it was > really a huge mess. We've gotten rid of that and standardized long ago. Which is precisely the reason I raised this issue with my original message. A Gentoo Foundation copyright declaration _does not_ assign the copyrights of a work to Gentoo, only the _signed_ copyright assignment agreement does so. It's exactly that "huge mess" that I'm trying to avoid. -- Anthony Gorecki Ectro-Linux Foundation
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