From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34C5A138335 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:43:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDACEE0982; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE7A9E0982 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oystercatcher.gentoo.org (oystercatcher.gentoo.org [148.251.78.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2AABF335C91 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by oystercatcher.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7BE12DA for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:55 +0000 (UTC) From: "Ulrich Müller" To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, "Ulrich Müller" Message-ID: <1528656127.29ec3eec63ed6de47cd4dccb763305e74b04336f.ulm@gentoo> Subject: [gentoo-commits] data/glep:master commit in: / X-VCS-Repository: data/glep X-VCS-Files: glep-0076.rst X-VCS-Directories: / X-VCS-Committer: ulm X-VCS-Committer-Name: Ulrich Müller X-VCS-Revision: 29ec3eec63ed6de47cd4dccb763305e74b04336f X-VCS-Branch: master Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: c2db3d88-3329-4c7d-8f13-51328aa6772f X-Archives-Hash: c42739516c4437558f4a683cd946840c commit: 29ec3eec63ed6de47cd4dccb763305e74b04336f Author: Michał Górny gentoo org> AuthorDate: Tue May 29 13:35:50 2018 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller gentoo org> CommitDate: Sun Jun 10 18:42:07 2018 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?id=29ec3eec glep-0076: Provide a short rationale to the policy glep-0076.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst index a57aa6b..cb3f611 100644 --- a/glep-0076.rst +++ b/glep-0076.rst @@ -216,6 +216,25 @@ attributing copyright. Rationale ========= +This document aims to provide a single consistent copyright policy for +all Gentoo projects. It is explicitly enforced for all official Gentoo +projects in order to protect the interests of Gentoo as a whole, +including its contributors, developers and users. Additionally, it is +enforced for all other projects hosted on Gentoo infrastructure in order +to protect the Gentoo infrastructure owners and improve consistency. + +The copyright model is built on a combination of DCO model used +by the Linux kernel with FLA model used by different open source +projects. It requires all contributors to certify the legitimacy +of their contributions; however, they can freely choose whether to +assign the copyright to Gentoo, or not. + +Ideally, all major contributors to Gentoo would choose to sign the FLA. +However, enforcing it for all contributors would only create unnecessary +bureaucracy for trivial contributions and discourage a number of users +from actually contributing to Gentoo. The mixed model allows users to +choose a way of contributing that is appropriate to them. + Key dates in Gentoo copyright history =====================================