[123673] trunk/base/src

[David Evans]

On 8/12/14 5:04 AM, Clemens Lang wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Of course, a sure fire approach would be to see if Berry would be
>> willing to assign any copyright interest he might have in the code
>> to The MacPorts Project.
> That might be the case for US jurisdictions, but not for the EU. For
> example, as a German citizen, I cannot assign my copyright – it will
> always be mine. I can grant usage rights, but that's different.
>
> Of course other organizations (such as, e.g., the GNU project) do it
> anyway – I'm just saying if we're going to open that can of worms,
> we can either
>  (a) do it the full-blown way, employ a few lawyers across borders,
>      draft a document and have everybody submit that before
>      accepting patches. I think this would considerably slow down
>      our (already slow) processes.
>  (b) continue to ignore the issue as we have so far in the interest
>      of simplicity.
> Obviously (a) would be the correct thing to do. Unfortunately,
> "correct" costs time, and eats up more of the time we could use to
> get stuff done that actually matters.
>
> So, if you care enough about the issue, feel free to revert the
> change. Cc'ing jberry, because, if any, his rights are being
> violated here.
>
Interesting.

Yes, I think conferring with Berry is the appropriate approach.  If he
doesn't mind then the issue is moot.

Dave