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 86B70138D6C for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:32:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0631E0B27; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:32:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C1B7E0A40 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:32:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f177.google.com (mail-yw0-f177.google.com [209.85.161.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A28C93415B7 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yw0-f177.google.com with SMTP id t193so212190105ywc.2 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:32:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvcv7d4P5ZuLO2SjMUNp4rqE/RjFzXYuQ9q2+G8211UoDNEfDDuOV5AbhR8fRHQpOy8CG1dsd9ZX1lEN2w== X-Received: by 10.129.122.150 with SMTP id v144mr17814302ywc.67.1477351931629; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.37.219.7 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:31:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Matt Turner Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:31:51 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions To: gentoo development Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 4e053276-7649-43ea-b169-f6360d44c413 X-Archives-Hash: 9a04b3700af3601edaccacd1ad7aee64 On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> You cannot currently commit anything with a different copyright notice >>> to gentoo.git >> >> According to whom or what? >> > > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html > Under ebuild header. Thank you. > This is a Gentoo policy. Repoman will complain if you violate this. > It will get noticed and treecleaned if you ignore repoman. Devs who > violate the policy will be warned, etc. > > The policy could be changed, and there have been discussions around > improvements: > https://dev.gentoo.org/~rich0/copyrightpolicy.xml > > The main issue I'm aware of with that draft is that it is painful to > track who has copyright on what to put the proper copyright notice on > each file. Suggestions are welcome. Yeah, it seems to be painful no matter what you do (CLA, copyright assignment, listing copyright holders) just in different ways :)