From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-10-14
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 19:21:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w6gsh18e95w.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181014170851.GA26234@linux1.home> (William Hubbs's message of "Sun, 14 Oct 2018 12:08:51 -0500")
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>>>>> On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 05:53:03PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> The simplified form of the copyright attribution according to
>> GLEP 76 [1], i.e., "Copyright YEARS Gentoo Authors", should be used
>> for ebuilds and profile files in the Gentoo repository.
> s/should be used/is preferred, but not required/
No, that won't catch the intention at all.
>> Exceptionally, files carrying the long form of the copyright attribution
>> ("Copyright YEARS MAIN-CONTRIBUTOR [OTHER-CONTRIBUTOR]... [and others]")
>> can also be accepted, if there are valid reasons why the simplified
>> attribution cannot be used.
> Remove this entire paragraph.
> As rich0 said, there is no legal reason to mandate anything about the
> copyright header.
This also implies that there is no legal reason to put anything else
than "Gentoo Authors" there. Very good.
Really, the proposed policy isn't motivated by any legal reasons, but
entirely by practical considerations.
Ulrich
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-30 13:05 [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-10-14 Sergei Trofimovich
2018-10-10 7:43 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-11 12:31 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-10-11 15:12 ` Brian Dolbec
2018-10-11 17:49 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-11 18:05 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-11 17:03 ` Alec Warner
2018-10-11 17:35 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-11 21:24 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-10-12 0:09 ` Alec Warner
2018-10-12 0:24 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-10-12 1:30 ` Sarah White
2018-10-12 6:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-12 12:52 ` William Hubbs
2018-10-12 17:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-12 17:44 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-13 3:32 ` desultory
2018-10-13 9:15 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-14 9:24 ` Mart Raudsepp
2018-10-14 15:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-14 17:08 ` William Hubbs
2018-10-14 17:21 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2018-10-11 17:29 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-10-11 21:09 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-10-11 21:28 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-12 1:25 ` Sarah White
2018-10-12 1:59 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-12 11:34 ` Sarah White
2018-10-12 12:40 ` Rich Freeman
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