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 3FACA138334 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:15:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB716E089A; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:15:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (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 72257E089A for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:15:52 +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 E8D14335C7E for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by oystercatcher.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D212E2 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:15:48 +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: <1529261999.8b49e368a7fc02b1414fdf691c23f41618d6b86a.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: 8b49e368a7fc02b1414fdf691c23f41618d6b86a X-VCS-Branch: master Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:15:48 +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: e0591f6d-ce6d-4f18-be0f-aca9d077cdf5 X-Archives-Hash: 401fa7e200c50266771f46f92cdd5a0f commit: 8b49e368a7fc02b1414fdf691c23f41618d6b86a Author: Ulrich Müller gentoo org> AuthorDate: Sun Jun 17 18:59:59 2018 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller gentoo org> CommitDate: Sun Jun 17 18:59:59 2018 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?id=8b49e368 glep-0076: Allow for simplified form of copyright notice. Thanks to Matija Šuklje for pointing me to the Chromium project's information for contributors. glep-0076.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst index c93ca04..7ac5006 100644 --- a/glep-0076.rst +++ b/glep-0076.rst @@ -200,6 +200,18 @@ Any concerns not addressed by a maintainer can be appealed to the Trustees. +Simplified Attribution +---------------------- + +Alternatively, projects are welcome to use a simplified form of the +copyright notice, which reads:: + + Copyright YEARS The Gentoo Authors + +Projects using this scheme must track authorship in a VCS, unless they +list all authors of copyrightable contributions in an ``AUTHORS`` file. + + Rationale ========= @@ -291,6 +303,17 @@ more appropriate to separate it from the enumeration by putting it in a separate paragraph. +Copyright Notice +---------------- + +Especially for ebuild repositories, constantly keeping track of the +main copyright holder of any file would be rather inconvenient and +tedious. Therefore, projects are free to use either a traditional +copyright notice listing the individual author(s), or a simplified +notice with an attribution to "The Gentoo Authors". The latter +resembles the scheme used by the Chromium project [#CHROMIUM]_. + + Acknowledgements ================ @@ -330,6 +353,9 @@ References .. [#DEBIAN-LICENSE] [debian-legal] License of the GPL license, https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2018/04/msg00006.html +.. [#CHROMIUM] Chromium: Contributing Code, + https://www.chromium.org/developers/contributing-code#TOC-Legal-stuff + Copyright =========