Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: copyright attribution clarifications

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 3:51 PM Sarah White <kuzetsa@poindexter.ovh> wrote:
>
> On 11/23/18 3:42 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 3:23 PM Sarah White <kuzetsa@poindexter.ovh> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/23/18 2:46 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> >>> Nobody is suggesting that multiple copyright owners shouldn't be
> >>> allowed.  Merely that multiple copyright owners shouldn't be named in
> >>> the copyright notice.
> >>
> >> The interest in removing or discouraging a more verbose,
> >> explicit copyright notice would suggest the only legitimate
> >> interest should be assumed to be in "gentoo authors", and
> >> for no other entity(s) or person(s) need have any stake
> >> in having a well-structured copyright notice (any format)
> >
> > I'm not sure what "well-structured" means.
>
> SPDX is well-structured, and was previously given
> as an example (I believe it was in this thread)

Great, so stick this in your git commit:
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later

That isn't a copyright notice anyway, so I see it as orthogonal to the
issue of notice.

-- 
Rich