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Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:25:23 +0000 (UTC) To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org, Ulrich Mueller , gentoo-dev-announce@lists.gentoo.org References: <23325.35685.793702.267278@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> From: NP-Hardass Openpgp: id=862040BE422755F27FDE13D5671C52F118F89C67; url=https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x671C52F118F89C67 Autocrypt: addr=NP-Hardass@gentoo.org; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= xsFNBFTkWCYBEADjDSP3/MDba3hDgUjy/8w2PU/kzx+AWwWkXuA3zUhBnS7AVK2Zh5gajysZ OWAkmZ0VmrzSHICQzYosyhq+YVIdTg5LvIxsG1fj2rSEMbqk9mtjdNDsoUmzUkECOL/Txph1 u46vtnMy97Gs82imE3uCBIQkxc+aUesePXeQGOh6EDcxMvFcn8x1lhXE244lES5Spu72Wen4 cYRpPboRTbuUxXUwrOIAOzF2eX5BDipZVKmrV9i5SC3oQIG1MnJdHDLWhDm3XQjlEsvH5Rge 55bvXFVs6Hzdv3SUI330E6W15kLt0Ij94nJqOgWCPfKu+7Tb2UYlVlCkiIFujIWxLGaQRXU2 3wOu7TuGJ0NQzP1lwCImdydEF+BL61l6awFI1ixwgZQGkzaEvXMhc6PltM12y5poFvcQXK+P aLdztY0cLSlhg36HZb+E8bavNLLIw4tJ2LKx8YmMNFfoIVAN33wU2QZ08SyT5VTCi8svU0U+ 2n8e3TA23gx+OHyUvjwNdFm5NDi0sIpeYpgMfUSjTO7pq0JEAQLTY//9MjqmmicXpvMnqA2X NrZZXaxs19yApzxfbFQegg9tgNiSeYONtIXWQinznfv+h3GY7K6zKhyq5IL0ji/Gf2l/+1WD VB/h6OJGbKqydPZnBiQRC6mt/lpkE5/Z1qHzzrNlTT0RTdNDlQARAQABzSJOUC1IYXJkYXNz IDxOUC1IYXJkYXNzQGdlbnRvby5vcmc+wsGWBBMBCABAAhsDBwsJCAcDAgEGFQgCCQoLBBYC AwECHgECF4AWIQSGIEC+QidV8n/eE9VnHFLxGPicZwUCWi8lgwUJCQ00XQAKCRBnHFLxGPic Z7toD/9BlYZ9Lk7ejlvkenz+EPqySkZAHERwUS5hqBiOTarVJZtjm7uGCbzhCltInsWKHREN jIboWsCzHPdnqeQ7BiRjUCbLXctqsW9kWvxBxJaCKqy9XqG7WWqgm7gxqYxDp9EM4mV1JeU4 aSXkLJu/JlLaC0FWvQNFJZhhK7VQwcMmz1mmFZayXFce/lpKn2NWwqQc6gKRQlBvKaY+ohpP 0Ixt7SiU2FqgsfR8tsGxiMaZnq4ULbfzOtee3zSzIaPpF1EzoKmnNKzVdSW7QY94OJQKkFmt KWi0+yk2lYfMVPiYC+Ph8FXe0Cqk//nECA+OGtvLo5bc7mtgCdCqfQVo7ds0HQ9gdW8Hq55u evrVN+6TwoPr0n50wckJ3cQy9Yj1gKWJO/XNciLJoZ2fJ9jAsaP9LlITKeLI1yWqt2LaNMfP gVn4eS/jNstuMvyA0qgmELQ/VItDrC30ow7I8yarPlBpywIW8jpBZQeujujshDfmYJJatt72 ETT6Us5f/zDpb7V8g+feReUzo1bDsIlXxhSC/hrJIQUdsRj5kM2cHgMttdj5/+9mMhxLVXkK AlgJs2evnp3WmrOovYoLfN/pkVyxAbXKu0Y/c7L+NMPRHW+V3oUXGrphw+Uh/S+d3NHG3gGz 1Y0H6OyHHai9f8iXu4aTqhVatNZFmYlywlS3/Wz/Lc7BTQRU5FgmARAA4ThPsCyVb6QBhtRU 5vUuWMuzhXpdUr151ccXYqYBXn1h45hW9qoZo8Y7xQp6cGJSECSNmTkJU9FMN48Ewn3+YIxa uJOWar+eCvh++TvPVqjo/UQZqTK29NUBiL5aSC0pU49Z5Ve2TXYGhdcZT0OQM4A1MTlRfIaV tqlPfoqifsNGjiwpjRoo4AWYADIfhajvHCDJ5ITka+T07DBFOBSy98SaoKNfdaClb6tmLBs7 hroKpCCijfBe20UMeaKN6zQuhW8GR3VzpRC/G9HBEmH6GxiVmBkhEQjgX5aTS7T/jz2YZrI6 mS3zKZ7gEByjhxUOS83UON99aOqnMPUphXnjIPIPydBHYVlY4egLKPI91nFAZv5DYIzyERux KE2w2f9Xns7wyEOYhqddOTZ0lio4oQCc/sR040rKtL6qOciC1z3jDeYTrQE410eGF71SvuiN ceThbAty26zYQAFxvlimrgTTVkLOSsCz6+/SWoD42gwVYwQ4hRoCwYzuC/ILGmECoiJXFgtR A/gK/5g7c05depLSo9VH8/+b4Cxqt+U9+beqfxtr+9b5w9ut6AZcZLj25s40gc19nJQkEl49 S2XfJ7lkczuBj2K8T0ZZ82woPDu2W3UORYU0iW+0WuEZ5DIZsOy5g8YWYFoeWfzI9TPkHAAd ccZtE8r1h2IoQ7RBSr0AEQEAAcLBfAQYAQIAJgIbDBYhBIYgQL5CJ1Xyf94T1WccUvEY+Jxn BQJaLyVzBQkJDTRNAAoJEGccUvEY+Jxnf8YP+wQlCLyFetSuMHd3ZO36HE1ohU+Mvspa6Z1a 97K1ECG9xDNNodHtQ7j1qCTYqKH2N2RWgErowk9RT8y8ok+1fJHD/94qYpmb++R1g2m1XmEC tssGv40uHI0TxVdwu3xpfdGTW8roQOMngoTP0RW5BNWTqfAv7+LEMbD9kber1AbyLJzxYdgU sxwHnQ6pRdcyb75drG9Mo1br8s6knTvW2i+5JCKSud/oexvSC0w2SegPvlsrqPWJoWQ5Yo7g IAQQG6KjdYoVy3m/goNcXiIHnuFv5dWfnOyP+Th2sVgy2VX3M9jsejFvXABYwVyslkIXFudm UqofjSD7OAz9jMOrAgMKdI6ez40GJaK9/aCEynm1ckwzEBpjB9H3TtXuhxwsFB/HqIMxYRCw 7vrKh7of3kzc6nsmn07Nd8sPElx/4wTc6QXyM4OXqmIE5tSgKYt3ns2o6PALqBpWx8FaHafg 4zFRY3+tEx0/lw8/yYDYiRRFfqkuiaqItL6ugSfUXdB13um+606IexFZCiwla1CtnGUx3Byw NQnAYOdUKHkKeQ9mYXGnScl6P6OJBXV5xBmINNmzaRGQWQAXN1/f3AJ7ZLqWdzOT96yKR1RY Qtfcn5WlfuZfjQBVNEWzzTZb/8hAlrFJLMwPUDl9AWz+surEACrh46BT4W2voigsA7dibW6E Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] GLEP 76: Copyright Policy Message-ID: Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:25:08 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 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 In-Reply-To: <23325.35685.793702.267278@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IwrHR5OIDeMo3484HJTgeRedoHky54vm4" X-Archives-Salt: 0ae64712-0f61-4aa8-a905-7e4178109c15 X-Archives-Hash: 53fa58095e7cf2ce64a2e0f95445a180 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --IwrHR5OIDeMo3484HJTgeRedoHky54vm4 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="IltW2GJFh9yCJow9a09bdJ7y7IlShI0Gn"; protected-headers="v1" From: NP-Hardass To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org, Ulrich Mueller , gentoo-dev-announce@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] GLEP 76: Copyright Policy References: <23325.35685.793702.267278@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <23325.35685.793702.267278@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> --IltW2GJFh9yCJow9a09bdJ7y7IlShI0Gn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 06/10/2018 04:34 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: [...] > Copyright Attribution > --------------------- >=20 > All files included in Gentoo projects must contain an appropriate > copyright notice, as defined by this policy. >=20 > A proper copyright notice appears near the top of the file, and reads::= >=20 > Copyright YEARS LARGEST-CONTRIBUTOR [OTHER-CONTRIBUTORS] and others= >=20 > 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. 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