> 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.
> <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.
>
> Also, have you seen GLEP 76, the official Gentoo copyright policy? It
> goes over this topic:
>
> https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html
>
> This GLEP introduces a copyright and licensing policy for Gentoo projects.
We’re taking about ebuilds outside of the Gentoo projects, aren’t we?
Sincerely,
Alexander Kurakin.