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 38BCE138334 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 16:19:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5191E095E; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 16:19:14 +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 75236E0959 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 16:19:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15 (host2092.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ulm) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BD0F5335CC8; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 16:19:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Ulrich Mueller To: Subject: [gentoo-dev] Copyright notices in ebuild repositories Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 18:19:02 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: f2ebcb11-83b7-4fe0-908a-88023320b994 X-Archives-Hash: f4881870346a9d3f4074e0784116ccdf --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain By GLEP 76, two forms of copyright notices are allowed for copyrightable files in Gentoo projects: A "long form": Copyright YEARS MAIN-CONTRIBUTOR [OTHER-CONTRIBUTOR]... [and others] or a "simplified form": Copyright YEARS Gentoo Authors The latter was introduced because keeping track of ebuild authors is close to impossible. We didn't want to put any burden on developers to decide when information about the main contributor should be updated in the notice. Or, by the GLEP's own wording: "Especially for ebuild repositories, constantly keeping track of the main copyright holder of any file would be rather inconvenient and tedious." Therefore, the recommendation is to use the simplified form (i.e., "Gentoo Authors") in the Gentoo repository, at least for ebuilds and profile files. Also, when doing a simple version bump based on a previous ebuild, the existing starting year should be kept. (I am aware that for most ebuilds 1999 will not be correct either. Not sure if aiming for something more accurate would be worth the effort, though.) Ulrich --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEZlHkP3TnuTbxrN0HwwkGhRxhwnMFAluvpfYACgkQwwkGhRxh wnPjeAf7BPBs9Wtn+rS5H6PKogi4ZmTj+F5mw+FcO3xYgRkhMQU8DTkfJXvWMPlK GVAncPXNHUHxmiHsa0F8CAapL7nWgCQToQrC2j5bxF1A9ghkw1if3xCOeG2B/Wp+ 4dJP0jpbE9Fle3NmCFwl4/iDW01R+g04VzKvLbcGY5IQy4d7W16zFHZ7d+N3/85D bZ8x8xFb5peEFbkA6FcIwp3M+rVsfaR3oYnJrKRA+njMNS5mCJIB45Xo14K5zLBN XBwk3YVbiUDMPi23gESLi/7kE0Nk0Zp+S5DkXGCx5lTOlTPCqnXM60cGfUGt8mqL A2gY4VzgGK5V8bmL0ONIwIEsDNCCKA== =yE1F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--