On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 20:07 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Unless there are third party repositories shipping their own > from-scratch ebuilds... In which case, afaics there's nothing to stop > *them* from going GPL-3 if they think there's a reason to do so. Unless > the Foundation somehow claims that all ebuilds, even those > from-scratch, are derived works?
What's the case here? Third-party ebuilds being contributed into the tree via bugzilla and other means? Or third-party ebuilds from joe shmoe off www.joeshmoesebuilds.com? The second case is meaningless to Gentoo. The first case needs to be considered. The question there, I suppose, is: do we *require* contributors to license ebuilds as GPL-2? And if that is the case, that's what stops them. It would be an interesting question, though, to prove that someone wrote a from-scratch ebuild via looking only at the documentation, and without basing any parts off of already existing ebuilds in the tree, no? Thanks, Seemant
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