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commit: 914f141cfb992282bfb5e1cf083ef32512e65bd2 |
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Author: Richard Freeman <rich0 <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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AuthorDate: Tue Mar 27 17:23:31 2018 +0000 |
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Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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CommitDate: Sun Jun 10 18:42:07 2018 +0000 |
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URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?id=914f141c |
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glep-0076: Add initial text for motivation. |
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Signed-off-by: Richard Freeman <rich0 <AT> gentoo.org> |
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diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst |
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index cb4b1a6..569cc63 100644 |
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--- a/glep-0076.rst |
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@@ -28,6 +28,32 @@ Abstract |
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Motivation |
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========== |
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+In the past Gentoo developers signed contributor licensing agreements |
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+formally assigning copyright to the Gentoo Foundation, and copyright |
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+headers in individual files reflected this. Then at some point in |
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+time these formal agreements no longer were being signed, but the |
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+headers remained, and were enshrined in policy. This led to a |
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+situation where copyright ownership might be ambiguous. |
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+ |
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+Also, the general policy to have Gentoo Foundation copyright notices |
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+caused an issue when Gentoo developers forked another project and |
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+hosted the fork on Gentoo infrastructure. To comply with the previous |
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+policy the copyright notices were modified, which caused concerns |
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+with the project the files were forked from. Our previous policy |
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+completely neglected the possibility that Gentoo might want to host |
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+files that were not created internally. |
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+ |
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+Finally, since the early days of Gentoo new ideas around copyright |
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+licensing have become more popular, such as the FSFE's Fiduciary |
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+License Agreement, which takes a copyleft approach to copyright |
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+licensing, while also better complying with copyright laws in nations |
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+that have author's rights. |
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+ |
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+The goal here was to create a policy that was both flexible enough to |
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+cover forks and situations where Gentoo would not own the majority of |
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+the copyright in a file, while also preserving our ability to formally |
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+own copyrights on as much of our works as possible. |
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+ |
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Specification |
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