From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-commits+bounces-1029522-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> 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 75206138334 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E13F7E0973; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:59 +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 B754BE0975 for <gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:59 +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 A63F0335C94 for <gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by oystercatcher.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2552CB for <gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:55 +0000 (UTC) From: "Ulrich Müller" <ulm@gentoo.org> 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" <ulm@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <1528656127.9b73e955e4c96dfe65752c7ddbd5385d928eef5d.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: 9b73e955e4c96dfe65752c7ddbd5385d928eef5d X-VCS-Branch: master Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-commits+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-commits+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-commits+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-commits.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 0c22ec65-4a81-4dba-9346-4ca5ef200d1f X-Archives-Hash: f05ae9c82831156a17450662a286e60d commit: 9b73e955e4c96dfe65752c7ddbd5385d928eef5d Author: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2 <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Fri Apr 20 22:51:15 2018 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Sun Jun 10 18:42:07 2018 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?id=9b73e955 glep-0076: Motivation: Improve readability re forked projects. Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2 <AT> gentoo.org> glep-0076.rst | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst index 31b8c35..7bb4893 100644 --- a/glep-0076.rst +++ b/glep-0076.rst @@ -35,13 +35,14 @@ 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. +Also, the policy to have copyright notices ascribing copyright +ownership to the Gentoo Foundation 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