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commit: 4c395f6b1071fee86f0d296df0750958e4a5acca |
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Author: Joonas Niilola <juippis <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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AuthorDate: Tue Sep 21 12:51:46 2021 +0000 |
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Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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CommitDate: Sun Sep 26 09:03:18 2021 +0000 |
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URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=4c395f6b |
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general-concepts/copyright-policy/: new page |
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Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis <AT> gentoo.org> |
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[Delete trailing whitespace.] |
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Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo.org> |
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diff --git a/general-concepts/copyright-policy/text.xml b/general-concepts/copyright-policy/text.xml |
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+<?xml version="1.0"?> |
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+<guide self="general-concepts/copyright-policy/"> |
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+<chapter> |
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+<title>Gentoo's copyright policy</title> |
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+<body> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+<uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html">GLEP-76</uri> defines |
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+copyright and license policies for Gentoo Linux. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+Every Gentoo project must abide by the |
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+<uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.html"> |
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+Gentoo Social Contract</uri> and release its work under one or more of |
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+<uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html#licensing-of-gentoo-projects"> |
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+predetermined licenses</uri>. Exceptions may be granted by the Gentoo |
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+Foundation per-case basis. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+</body> |
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+ |
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+<section> |
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+<title>Certificate of Origin</title> |
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+<body> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+Per Gentoo's <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html">GLEP 76 |
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+(Copyright Policy GLEP)</uri>, you must sign-off all your commits to any |
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+Gentoo-hosted repository with accordance to the |
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+<uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html#certificate-of-origin"> |
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+copyright policy</uri>. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+When committing work authored by someone else, e.g. a Bugzilla patch, or GitHub |
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+pull request, a sign-off from the original author is always strongly |
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+recommended, in order to indicate that the author acknowledges Gentoo's |
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+copyright policy. However, it is not mandatory for every case. Please refer to |
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+the example list below when determining whether a sign-off from the original |
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+author is, or is not required. The list below serves as a general guideline. |
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+</p> |
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+</body> |
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+ |
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+<subsection> |
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+<title>Examples for general guideline</title> |
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+<body> |
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+ |
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+<dl> |
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+ <dt>A contribution with a Signed-off-by line by its author</dt> |
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+ <dd> |
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+ Can be accepted, because the author confirmed that it is under a free |
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+ software license. The committer adds another S-o-b line and certifies the |
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+ commit under point 4 of the |
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+ <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html#certificate-of-origin"> |
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+ GCO</uri>. |
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+ <note> |
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+ Use common sense here, especially if you don't know the contributor. If the |
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+ contribution was taken from somewhere else and the contributor doesn't have |
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+ the right to distribute it under a free software license, you as the |
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+ committer might get into trouble. So in this situation, do your best to |
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+ check repositories for matching code, and whether they hold any special |
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+ copyright claims. |
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+ </note> |
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+ </dd> |
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+ <dt> |
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+ A contribution without a S-o-b line and of significant size, but with an |
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+ independent indication of its license (e.g. copyright and license notices |
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+ in the file's header) |
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+ </dt> |
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+ <dd> |
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+ Can be accepted. The committer adds a S-o-b line and certifies the commit |
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+ under GCO point 2. |
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+ </dd> |
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+ <dt> |
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+ A contribution without a S-o-b line but not |
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+ <uri link="https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html"> |
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+ "legally significant"</uri> (by the FSF's 15-lines rule of thumb) |
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+ </dt> |
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+ <dd> |
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+ Can be accepted. The committer adds a S-o-b line and certifies the commit |
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+ under GCO point 2. |
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+ </dd> |
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+ <dt> |
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+ A contribution without a S-o-b line and of significant size, without any |
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+ other indication of its license |
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+ </dt> |
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+ <dd> |
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+ Can <e>not</e> be accepted. There's no indication that the author has |
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+ released their work under a free license, therefore it must not be |
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+ distributed by Gentoo. |
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+ </dd> |
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+</dl> |
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+</body> |
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+</subsection> |
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+ |
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+</section> |
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+</chapter> |
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+</guide> |
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diff --git a/general-concepts/text.xml b/general-concepts/text.xml |
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index ace731e..dd7a7c2 100644 |
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--- a/general-concepts/text.xml |
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+++ b/general-concepts/text.xml |
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@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ writing ebuilds or working with the Gentoo repository. |
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<!-- Keep in alphabetical order --> |
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<include href="autotools/"/> |
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<include href="config-protect/"/> |
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+<include href="copyright-policy/"/> |
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<include href="dependencies/"/> |
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<include href="ebuild-revisions/"/> |
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<include href="emerge-and-ebuild/"/> |
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