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 D8B14138334 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04F85E095F; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:58 +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 CABBCE095F for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:57 +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 CFC7B335C90 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by oystercatcher.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04DD82C8 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: <1528656127.914f141cfb992282bfb5e1cf083ef32512e65bd2.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: 914f141cfb992282bfb5e1cf083ef32512e65bd2 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: ecd30a30-62e1-4f08-840f-de7c163b9055 X-Archives-Hash: 156e12c659b5f753e9ea517f663b7b1f commit: 914f141cfb992282bfb5e1cf083ef32512e65bd2 Author: Richard Freeman gentoo org> AuthorDate: Tue Mar 27 17:23:31 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=914f141c glep-0076: Add initial text for motivation. Signed-off-by: Richard Freeman gentoo.org> glep-0076.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst index cb4b1a6..569cc63 100644 --- a/glep-0076.rst +++ b/glep-0076.rst @@ -28,6 +28,32 @@ Abstract Motivation ========== +In the past Gentoo developers signed contributor licensing agreements +formally assigning copyright to the Gentoo Foundation, and copyright +headers in individual files reflected this. Then at some point in +time these formal agreements no longer were being signed, but the +headers remained, and were enshrined in policy. This led to a +situation where copyright ownership might be ambiguous. + +Also, the general policy to have Gentoo Foundation copyright notices +caused an issue when Gentoo developers forked another project and +hosted the fork on Gentoo infrastructure. To comply with the previous +policy the copyright notices were modified, which caused concerns +with the project the files were forked from. Our previous policy +completely neglected the possibility that Gentoo might want to host +files that were not created internally. + +Finally, since the early days of Gentoo new ideas around copyright +licensing have become more popular, such as the FSFE's Fiduciary +License Agreement, which takes a copyleft approach to copyright +licensing, while also better complying with copyright laws in nations +that have author's rights. + +The goal here was to create a policy that was both flexible enough to +cover forks and situations where Gentoo would not own the majority of +the copyright in a file, while also preserving our ability to formally +own copyrights on as much of our works as possible. + Specification =============