Marius Mauch wrote: > While I think this would be an excellent move, there are a few topics > that concern me a bit: > 1) just to be sure, did someone check the transfer agreement between the > Foundation and the old Gentoo, Inc for potential problems? > 2) what would this mean for our copyright situation? In detail: > a) who would (legally) own the copyright? > b) what would (in theory) be involved if we'd want to enforce/change > the license? > c) if the copyright were owned by the Conservancy, would we have to > change our copyright headers (in existing and/or new files)?
It might be worth noting that it appears that Gentoo would be the first distribution to join. I'd be interested in knowing if the SFC considers distributing closed-source or proprietary software (nero, ati/nvidia drivers, vmware) to be "producing non-free software (as per the Conservancy's charitable purpose)" as mentioned in section 2(b) of their notes. Paragraph 2(a) seems to prohibit it. > a. The Project Will Be Free Software. The Conservancy and the Project agree > that > any software distributed by the Project will be distributed solely as Free > Software. If that's not a problem I think this is a great idea. -- dirtyepic you'd be tossed up or wash up, the narrator relates gentoo org in a spartan antarctican walk for many days 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
