On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch > > that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal > > under all countries that follow the "normal" body of Copyright Law. It > > should be removed right now before someone gets into trouble, not the > > least of which would be the orginization that the copyright is now being > > attributed to. > > > > Come on people, this is basic copyright law, it's not something > > radically new. It's something that _all_ software developers should > > know, either from school, or any company they have ever worked at. > > > > Please fix this now. > > klondike discussed the copyright branch changes with robbat2 before they > started and there was no problem at the time. We have retained all > copyright notices and looking at the branch, I find nothing objectionable.
Why is this getting a Gentoo Foundation copyright in the first place? Why is that necessary? greg k-h
