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On 10/24/2016 04:18 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> You cannot currently commit anything with a different copyright notice |
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>>> to gentoo.git |
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>> According to whom or what? |
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> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html |
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> Under ebuild header. |
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> This is a Gentoo policy. Repoman will complain if you violate this. |
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> It will get noticed and treecleaned if you ignore repoman. Devs who |
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> violate the policy will be warned, etc. |
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> The policy could be changed, and there have been discussions around |
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> improvements: |
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> https://dev.gentoo.org/~rich0/copyrightpolicy.xml |
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> The main issue I'm aware of with that draft is that it is painful to |
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> track who has copyright on what to put the proper copyright notice on |
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> each file. Suggestions are welcome. |
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This made me think of another scenario; let's say I have my own fork of |
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Gentoo, maintained in an overlay complete with docs, etc, under an MIT |
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or BSD license, but as a Gentoo developer, I must copyright under GPL. |
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Could I do such dual licensing on a case-by-case basis because (in this |
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hypothetical) I'm the original author of the ebuilds? |
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If so, then Matt's coworker could offer the same ebuild under a |
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Gentoo-friendly license and maintain copyright on Google's overlay. The |
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only question at that point would be Google's own copyright policy and |
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whether or not its employees own any of what they produce on company time. |
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