Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-10-14

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> 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