From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7348 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2004 16:23:34 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 7 Jan 2004 16:23:34 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AeGT0-0000RJ-2N for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:23:34 +0000 Received: (qmail 3109 invoked by uid 50004); 7 Jan 2004 16:13:56 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 24818 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2004 16:13:56 +0000 From: Chris Bainbridge To: Gentoo Dev Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:13:51 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401071613.51986.C.J.Bainbridge@ed.ac.uk> Subject: [gentoo-dev] ebuild copyright attribution? X-Archives-Salt: 426f8c09-44f7-4f1d-a548-f1fcde3de203 X-Archives-Hash: 418a9d654785866c9394c0af08f2e37e Daniel Robbins said in August: "I've been trying to get people to keep their names in the copyright line for over a year, but no one has really started doing it. To my knowledge, it is better to have multiple official copyright holders for GPL code than just a single copyright holder. I would like all our ebuilds to have a copyright like this: # Copyright 2003 Gentoo Technologies, Joe User, and others (see cvs # changelog.) Distributed under the GPL version 2. I don't see why this would be a problem for anyone, and makes a lot more sense than what we are doing now." Since then I've submitted all my ebuilds with dual copyright lines, but never once been accepted as that. I've been told that the automated tools don't like a different line, and that "Seemant says "dual copyrights" are only accepted for special circumstances, e.g. when you're employed to do the work by an external entitity". On another note, it would be nice to see ebuilds accepted if there are no bug reports after a while.. I have ebuilds for new packages still sitting in bugzilla after half a year. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list