On 7 February 2011 02:38, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
You raise a good point, I would think that we would need to post something on the submit page stating the copyright nature. My brothers are lawyers, I will check with them as to what the right thing to do is.
Eric Waller wrote:
I am not a lawyer and I generally tune out all license flame wars. That said, PKGBUILDS generally do not contain copyright or license declarations. Unless I am mistaken, that means someone who comes into possession of a PKGBUILD does not have the right to republish it.
As a minimum, I think Arch should get a nod from the creator of a PKGBUILD prior to absorbing it into the colective -- It might help avoid any misunderstandings.
What is the legal status of files submitted to the AUR? I have always assumed that anything uploaded to the AUR is automatically licensed under the GPL or something similar, in the same way that content contributed to the wiki is.
I can't find anything that states this on the AUR site, which is a
-Thomas S Hatch On Feb 6, 2011 10:49 AM, "Xyne" <xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote: potentially
calamitous legal oversight.
The legal issue should be cleared up. If we needed to obtain explicit permission from every contributor then the AUR would cease to be useful. You would not be able to adopt and update PKGBUILDs without permission, and you would need to enable users to delete their own PKGBUILDs when they decide to withdraw permission.
Err..it is as relaxed as the wiki. I don't see why any question about ownership should arise. If someone wants to claim ownership and not be willing to share then so be it (don't even upload to AUR then). She will have a bad reputation, not our problem.