On 11/17/2012 11:28 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: >> On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch >>> that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal >>> under all countries that follow the "normal" body of Copyright Law. It >>> should be removed right now before someone gets into trouble, not the >>> least of which would be the orginization that the copyright is now being >>> attributed to. >>> >>> Come on people, this is basic copyright law, it's not something >>> radically new. It's something that _all_ software developers should >>> know, either from school, or any company they have ever worked at. >>> >>> Please fix this now. >> >> klondike discussed the copyright branch changes with robbat2 before they >> started and there was no problem at the time. We have retained all >> copyright notices and looking at the branch, I find nothing objectionable. > > Seriously? > > Look at the comment I made on that commit for details, but here it is > again: > > You can not claim copyright on a file you did not do one of the two > things: > - create yourself > - modify in a "major" manner > > Adding a comment at the top saying it is part of the eudev project and > covered under the LGPL2+ does not meet either of these requirements at > all. > > By merely importing a file into a new project, you can not claim > copyright on it. That's the law. The fact that this was reviewed by > someone makes me seriously wonder about the copyright policies of the > Gentoo Foundation. > > Also, you can not assign copyright to a third party, unless you have a > copyright assignment form. Do the developers doing this work have such > a form assigned? And in what country and state is that form valid for? > Different countries, and states, have different laws here, and > one-form-fits-all is not true anywhere. > > So blindly adding a Gentoo Foundation copyright to _any_ file in this > repo, that has not met one of the two above rules, is illegal, and > grounds for opening the Gentoo Foundation up to big trouble. > >> Would you mind joining us in IRC to discuss your concerns? > > I don't do IRC anymore, sorry. Email is the best way to reach me. > > thanks, > > greg k-h
Thanks for clarifying that. It will be fixed before it goes into HEAD.
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