On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:25 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > On Monday, October 24, 2016 7:07:41 PM EDT Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> I think you could make an argument that voluntarily placing that header on >> your work is an assignment of copyright. > > For the original author. That is not the case if adding another's ebuild to > tree. Which seems to be the problem in the other thread. >
Completely true, which is why devs aren't supposed to add ebuilds they don't hold copyright on without permission. A DCO would probably help with this, which is why that is generally considered a best practice. -- Rich
