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

[William Hubbs]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 05:53:03PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
>
> > If this is something to vote on in the meeting, lets have something we
> > can actually vote on before the meeting, please.
> > Can you come up with a wording of all this then that we can confidently
> > vote on, worded suitable for such, with the intentions clear in regards
> > to MUST/SHALL/SHOULD/MAY and whatnot? Maybe without referencing an
> > outside RFC to define what English words mean (or worse - using its
> > definitions without referencing it).
>
> How about this motion:
>
> 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/

> 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.

William