On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Matthias Maier <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think you could make an argument that voluntarily placing that >> header on your work is an assignment of copyright. > > I very much doubt that. >
Well, like I said you can argue it either way. Everybody is going to have an opinion, but the only ones that matter are those of the various top-level courts internationally, especially the US Supreme Court (since US law tends to get enforced extra-judicially). > > And I see absolutely no harm in explicitly annotating the actual > copyright in gentoo ebuilds. > Well, depending on how this is done the main harm is in administrative overhead, unless this is automated, or we use a simplistic approach of just continuing to append names. -- Rich
