Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-22 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2015.02.18 07:40, Jeroen Roovers wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 06:39:51 -0500 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the policy is not it must be Gentoo copyright, but it must have a header that says Gentoo copyright even though there's no legal basis for it. Correct, but I have

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Justin (jlec)
On 18/02/15 09:12, Jeroen Roovers wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:48:19 +0100 Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 18/02/15 08:40, Jeroen Roovers wrote: I seem to recall the developer quizzes may have had (or indeed requested) some more information on this matter. The test ebuild focuses

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:48:19 +0100 Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 18/02/15 08:40, Jeroen Roovers wrote: I seem to recall the developer quizzes may have had (or indeed requested) some more information on this matter. The test ebuild focuses on this topic. What is that? jer

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:34:21 +0100 Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org wrote: At the end of the review session we ask the recruits to fix an ebuild which has numerous technical and, as mentioned, legal aspects to take care of. That's a novelty I wasn't aware of, then. The technical practicalities

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Justin (jlec)
On 18/02/15 09:48, Jeroen Roovers wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:34:21 +0100 Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org wrote: At the end of the review session we ask the recruits to fix an ebuild which has numerous technical and, as mentioned, legal aspects to take care of. That's a novelty I wasn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Justin (jlec) wrote: This is part of the set of topics which we cover outside the scope of the quizzes. A brief comment from reality is that this legal problem is quit likely a significant hurdle for many potential developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: This is part of the set of topics which we cover outside the scope of the quizzes. A brief comment from reality is that this legal problem is quit likely a significant hurdle for many potential developers - as for me. If you want contributing to be easy, overhead

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Peter Stuge
Justin (jlec) wrote: This is part of the set of topics which we cover outside the scope of the quizzes. A brief comment from reality is that this legal problem is quit likely a significant hurdle for many potential developers - as for me. If you want contributing to be easy, overhead like this

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: The only things devs need to do with respect to copyright is follow the law Ah, but which law? I understand that law in e.g. Germany does not permit non-natural persons to own copyright. The public domain

[gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-17 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 06:39:51 -0500 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the policy is not it must be Gentoo copyright, but it must have a header that says Gentoo copyright even though there's no legal basis for it. Correct, but I have my doubts about the allegedly wobbly legal basis. I do

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright assignment

2015-02-17 Thread Justin (jlec)
On 18/02/15 08:40, Jeroen Roovers wrote: I seem to recall the developer quizzes may have had (or indeed requested) some more information on this matter. The test ebuild focuses on this topic. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature