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commit: d1f0fd9be4e67adc72a619ac4193c36e3becf175 |
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Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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AuthorDate: Thu Jun 7 18:33:28 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=d1f0fd9b |
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glep-0076: Remove FLA section. |
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Therefore simplifying the policy, as discussed in #gentoo-council. |
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glep-0076.rst | 51 +++++++++++---------------------------------------- |
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1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) |
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diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst |
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index ac42e2d..84671b9 100644 |
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--- a/glep-0076.rst |
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+++ b/glep-0076.rst |
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Type: Informational |
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Status: Draft |
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Version: 1 |
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Created: 2013-04-23 |
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-Last-Modified: 2018-06-03 |
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+Last-Modified: 2018-06-07 |
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Post-History: |
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Content-Type: text/x-rst |
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--- |
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@@ -72,10 +72,9 @@ License Agreement [#FLA]_, which takes a copyleft approach to |
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copyright licensing, while also better complying with copyright laws |
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in nations that have author's rights. |
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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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+The goal here was to create a policy that was flexible enough to cover |
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+forks and situations where Gentoo would not own the majority of the |
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+copyright in a file. |
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Specification |
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@@ -192,28 +191,6 @@ Any concerns not addressed by a maintainer can be appealed to the |
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Trustees. |
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-Licensing to the Gentoo Foundation |
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----------------------------------- |
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- |
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-All are welcome and encouraged (but *not* required) to assign copyright |
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-for their contributions to the Gentoo Foundation. Doing so makes |
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-compliance with this policy easier (fewer copyright holders to list), |
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-and allows the Foundation to enforce copyrights and re-license content |
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-if appropriate (this will only be done in accordance with the social |
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-contract and the Gentoo FLA). |
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- |
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-Copyright is assigned to the Foundation by electronically signing the |
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-Gentoo Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) [#GFLA]_. |
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- |
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-The agreement may be signed BY **TODO...** If the scope of the signed |
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-agreement included future contributions, the contributor may document |
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-their wish to stop assigning copyright by **TODO...** |
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- |
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-A list of those who have signed this agreement and the scope of their |
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-assignments may be found at **LINK**. This list may be useful when |
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-attributing copyright. |
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- |
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Rationale |
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========= |
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@@ -227,17 +204,14 @@ including its contributors, developers and users. Additionally, it is |
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enforced for all other projects hosted on Gentoo infrastructure in order |
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to protect the Gentoo infrastructure owners and improve consistency. |
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-The copyright model is built on a combination of DCO model used |
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-by the Linux kernel with FLA model used by different open source |
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-projects. It requires all contributors to certify the legitimacy |
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-of their contributions; however, they can freely choose whether to |
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-assign the copyright to Gentoo, or not. |
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+The copyright model is built on the DCO model used by the Linux kernel |
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+and requires all contributors to certify the legitimacy of their |
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+contributions. |
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-Ideally, all major contributors to Gentoo would choose to sign the FLA. |
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-However, enforcing it for all contributors would only create unnecessary |
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-bureaucracy for trivial contributions and discourage a number of users |
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-from actually contributing to Gentoo. The mixed model allows users to |
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-choose a way of contributing that is appropriate to them. |
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+In the future, a second stage of this policy may use a combination of |
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+the DCO model and an FLA model [#FLA]_ as it is used by different open |
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+source projects. Contributors would be able to freely choose whether |
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+they sign the FLA document or not. |
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DCO Changes |
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@@ -376,9 +350,6 @@ References |
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.. [#FLA] FSFE Legal: Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA), |
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https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fla.en.html |
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-.. [#GFLA] Gentoo Fiduciary License Agreement, |
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- https://dev.gentoo.org/~rich0/fla.pdf |
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- |
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.. [#DEBIAN-LICENSE] [debian-legal] License of the GPL license, |
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2018/04/msg00006.html |