>>>>> On Sat, 13 Oct 2018, desultory  wrote:
> On 10/11/18 13:35, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Alec Warner wrote:

>>> My reading of ulm's proposal is that it is allowed.

>>> Ebuilds "shall" use the simple attribution, not that they "must" use it.

>>> To me that implies the simple attribution should be the default, but the
>>> complex attribution is acceptable in the ::gentoo repo.

>>> Maybe I'm misunderstanding the proposal?

>> No, you've understood it exactly how it was meant.

> Especially given the audience, "should" would convey that intent more
> clearly than "shall". [1]

> [1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

| 3. SHOULD   This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
|    may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
|    particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
|    carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

LGTM, especially the part that the implications must be carefully
weighed before ignoring the policy.

Ulrich