On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:14:38 -0400 Seemant Kulleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the case here? Third-party ebuilds being contributed into the > tree via bugzilla and other means? Or third-party ebuilds from joe > shmoe off www.joeshmoesebuilds.com? > > The second case is meaningless to Gentoo. The first case needs to be > considered. The question there, I suppose, is: do we *require* > contributors to license ebuilds as GPL-2? And if that is the case, > that's what stops them.
Right. The second case is already covered by Gentoo policy. > It would be an interesting question, though, to prove that someone > wrote a from-scratch ebuild via looking only at the documentation, > and without basing any parts off of already existing ebuilds in the > tree, no? It'd be interesting to try to prove that they *did* copy it too... For a sufficiently trivial ebuild, it's entirely possible for a third party to come up with something that's very close to the in-tree ebuild, even if they did write it from scratch... Didn't someone (Seemant? I forget) have to 'provably' rewrite a few ebuilds that were in the tree a while ago? Wasn't there some issue with the copyright on ebuilds written by a former developer being something like "Copyright blah Gentoo and dude's_nick"? -- Ciaran McCreesh
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