Ray Rashif wrote: > Sorry, bad comparison, then. I'm not really sure what to compare it > with. We've never had to talk about things like this before (so > probably the time has come you would say). First of all, we've never > had people claiming "rights" to PKGBUILDs.
I agree that it is unlikely to be a problem, but the best thing to do is deal with the eventuality rather than continue with naive optimism. What needs to be done, imo: * decide on a permissive license or public domain for submitted files * add a clearly visible notification * add a note concerning the submission of files that cannot be redistributed, e.g. a copyrighted icon included in the upload * hope that no previous author ever shows up to claim copyright before the addition of the notice
