Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
I note that FSF-Europe uses what it calls a "Fiduciary Licence Agreement" to gain the ability to prosecute license violations for software whose copyright is distributed amongst many owners. Discussion here: http://www.fsf-europe.org/projects/fla/fla.html and the boilerplate for FTF's agreement i

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:24:23PM +0100, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Am Samstag, 3. M?rz 2007 19:48 schrieb Thomas R?sner: > > Hi, > > > > Danny van Dyk schrieb: > > > 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention > > > (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a >

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Samstag, 3. März 2007 19:48 schrieb Thomas Rösner: > Hi, > > Danny van Dyk schrieb: > > 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention > > (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a > > "Copyright (C) Gentoo Foundation" is useless in most countries > >

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Danny van Dyk schrieb: 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a "Copyright (C) Gentoo Foundation" is useless in most countries of the EU. E.g, *none* of the stuff that I ever commited to Gentoo's rep

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Danny van Dyk wrote: > 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention > (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a "Copyright > (C) Gentoo Foundation" is useless in most countries of the EU.

Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Danny van Dyk
Hi Daniel, > > I'm also curious as to why people should be expected to assign > > copyright to a group that is known for licence violations and > > removing attribution from documents. How does this protect > > anything? > > Copyright assignment (first to Gentoo Technologies, Inc., then to > Gento