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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright assignment and ownership (again)
From:       Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2 () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2005-02-28 13:14:21
Message-ID: 1109596461.5129.0.camel () vertigo ! twi-31o2 ! org
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On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:02 -0800, Anthony Gorecki wrote:
> On Sunday, February 27, 2005 9:13 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > How about we recognise that individual ebuilds aren't worth anything
> > and that the tree *as a whole* should be copyrighted as a single work?
> 
> This seems like a sensible idea, presuming the developers make certain that 
> the ebuilds which are committed to the tree are licensed under the GPL. I do, 
> however, believe that the original author of a newly contributed ebuild 
> deserves at least to have his name mentioned as such in the file.

I think the Gentoo policy on this is to name the author in the initial
ChangeLog commit and not the ebuild itself.

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Chris Gianelloni
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Gentoo Linux

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