On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:21:20PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/18/2012 11:22 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:05:05PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > >> On 11/18/2012 09:58 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > <an on-topic discussion about copyright thread response from me snipped> > > > >> We develop open source software in public repositories. A developer > >> decided it would be helpful to change the software name systemd to > >> eudev, among other things, in various files after misunderstanding what > >> the Foundation officers in charge of legal matters had approved. You > >> objected to it. I asked for clarification after seeing that your name > >> had not been removed from any copyright notices. You explained your > >> complaint. I asked you to wait for the person who wrote the commit to > >> fix it. It was fixed. > >> > >> That is all that was necessary. Whining on the list did not wake the > >> author of that commit sooner. Furthermore, the changes that you wanted > >> would have been made in a few days had you not become involved. > > > > None of the words you wrote here seem to me to be related to my response > > about copyright, the Gentoo Foundation, and how copyright works for > > software projects at all. So I'm a bit confused, what are you concerned > > about here? > > > > greg k-h > > Your issue has been resolved. You can stop beating the dead horse now.
I was responding to a discussion about how copyright works, and how it should be marked as such for Gentoo-related projects, that was not correct in my knowledge of copyright law. It had nothing to do with "my issue", or the udev issue at all, which is why I even changed the subject. Oh well. *plonk*
