On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Matt Turner <[email protected]> wrote: >> In order to contribute to GNU projects, one must sign a copyright >> assignment statement. >> >> Gentoo doesn't have anything similar as far as I'm aware, which makes >> me question the legitimacy of "Gentoo Foundation" copyrights. >> >> What is the story? >> > > The story of what? > > Are you asking whether they're legally binding? You'd have to sue > somebody to find out, because as far as I'm aware the matter is > untested in court. I think you could make an argument that > voluntarily placing that header on your work is an assignment of > copyright. You could also argue otherwise. A court would decide who > wins.
I'm asking whether we're just cargo-culting it along, or if we have (had) some kind of system in place to assign copyright. I think Ciaran answered: we used to but not anymore.
