> Hi Alexander,
> 
> My two cents as a third-party overlay maintainer.
 
Hi Bryan,
thanks for the reply!
 
> That is what I do.  I preserve any existing copyright statement when I
> import an ebuild from elsewhere, and I add a copyright line for myself
> too once I've made significant changes.  Those are two separate
> copyright statements, because the years in the Gentoo line are almost
> always not the same as the years I've modified the file.  And for my
> own ebuilds I only have a copyright line for myself.
 
Understood, thanks! Yes,
 
> <copyright> := <statement>[, <statement>, ...]
> <statement> := <date> <author(s)>
 
so you/we have one line but two statements in the copyright :)
 
> 
> I think the simplified attribution with "Gentoo Authors" can make it
> hard to find the original authors of ebuilds once they've been copied
> between repositories, because it requires digging to find which
> repository it came from (hopefully that was recorded somewhere),
> pulling that repo down (gentoo.git is big), then looking up the
> authors there.  So that's why I personally bother to use a separate
> copyright line.
 
Totally agree!
 
> 
> Also, have you seen GLEP 76, the official Gentoo copyright policy?  It
> goes over this topic:
> 
> https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html
> 
 
Yes, thanks, but
 
> This GLEP introduces a copyright and licensing policy for Gentoo projects.
 
We’re taking about ebuilds outside of the Gentoo projects, aren’t we?
 
> Cheers,
> Bryan
> 
 
Sincerely,
Alexander Kurakin.