>>>>> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Patrick McLean wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:24:08 +0100
> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

>> To say it again, ebuilds have a copyright notice for exactly two
>> reasons:
>> 
>> - to protect us against the "innocent infringement" defense under
>> U.S. law, and
>> 
>> - because the GPL-2 requires in section 1 to "appropriately publish
>> on each copy an appropriate copyright notice".
>> 
>> For both of these, it is irrelevant what the precise contents of the
>> notice is. If you made a significant contribution to the file, then
>> you can claim copyright for it, even if there is no copyright notice
>> at all, of if you aren't mentioned in it.
>> 
>> IANAL, but I think the case for being listed there explicitly is very
>> weak.

> Is accepting contributions form entities that require it a good
> argument? Is this really worth losing valuable contributions over?

*Why* would they require it? Is there any legal reason that I've
missed? In what way would an explicit copyright line help in a legal
dispute?

Also I still don't understand why "Gentoo Foundation" has worked for
you for many years, but "Gentoo Authors" does not.

Ulrich