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 A0CB1138334 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:45:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C3DCE0876; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:45:25 +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 2BC7AE0855; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot (d202-252.icpnet.pl [109.173.202.252]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 87550335C80; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1528739118.3031.3.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] GLEP 76: Copyright Policy From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org, Ulrich Mueller , gentoo-dev-announce@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 19:45:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <23325.35685.793702.267278@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.24.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 2caf16a1-a4ae-4f20-b3eb-a80a72121cf7 X-Archives-Hash: a51c3f08c524eb509cba6abdab61c422 W dniu pon, 11.06.2018 o godzinie 12∶25 -0400, użytkownik NP-Hardass napisał: > On 06/10/2018 04:34 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > [...] > > > Copyright Attribution > > --------------------- > > > > All files included in Gentoo projects must contain an appropriate > > copyright notice, as defined by this policy. > > > > A proper copyright notice appears near the top of the file, and reads:: > > > > Copyright YEARS LARGEST-CONTRIBUTOR [OTHER-CONTRIBUTORS] and others > > > > The largest contributor is whatever entity owns copyright to some > > portion of the largest number of lines in the file. Additional > > contributors can be listed, but this is neither required nor > > recommended. The "and others" text may be omitted if the explicitly > > listed contributors hold copyright to the entire file. > > Why is this not recommended? Here are a couple of scenarios that came to > mind that lead to me to question how that would play out: > If developer A writes 51% of the lines of an ebuild and developer B > writes 49%, should B not be listed? > What if all the metadata lines defining variables consists of 75% of the > file and was written by A, but the core functionality of the ebuild (25% > by size) was written by B? > If A writes an ebuild, and B replaces a majority (>50%) of the ebuild, > should B remove A from attribution? > I think that specifying that substantial (though not necessarily > specific in defining this) contributions/contributors should included in > the copyright attribution and that substantial contribution attribution > *is* recommended. > Note that line attribution is not a very precise measure anyway. For example, you can easily update all lines in the ebuild without making any substantial change to it. Therefore, according to 'git blame' you'd be 100% owner but at the same time the previous author would have far more original contribution than you did. -- Best regards, Michał Górny