[aur-general] AUR & Copyright

Michael Witten mfwitten at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 09:28:40 EST 2011


On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 14:20, Ray Rashif <schiv at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 2011/2/7 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>:
>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Ray Rashif <schiv at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> You can't say that. If someone decide to claim ownership to the PKGBUILD he
>> wrote and nothing has been done to clear the ownership issue before, the
>> reputation of this guy would be the last thing to worry about for Arch
>> Linux.
>>
>> Considering the wiki, it is clearly stated as being under the GNU Free
>> Documentation License 1.2.
>
> 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.

See my gcc-svn PKGBUILD:

    http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24849

Nobody likes it anyway, so who cares! :-)


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