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From: Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly_kushneriuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild info: author, maintainer and copyrights
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 03:37:42
Message-Id: 1012714637.960.7.camel@uranus.u235.eyep.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild info: author, maintainer and copyrights by Ilian Zarov
1 On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 06:10, Ilian Zarov wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 > I have some questions about the header of an ebuild.
4 > Should author contain program author information or name and email of
5 > the ebuild author ?
6 > How is maintainer being set ? Original ebuild author or is it assigned
7 > to a gentoo developer ?
8 > And a copyrights issue - the first line of every ebuild is
9 > "# Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.", shouldn't it be
10 > copyrighted to the ebuild author ?
11 > Thanks.
12 >
13 > Best Regards,
14 > Ilian Zarov
15 >
16 > _______________________________________________
17 > gentoo-dev mailing list
18 > gentoo-dev@g.o
19 > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
20 Author field should contain ebuild-author. aintainer should
21 also point to te same person initialy, but it might be changed later.
22 As you are the one that writes ebuild, you can decide on whatever license ;)
23 Just don't expect it to be added to the /usr/portage if it's not GPL.
24 An yes, you can leave the copyright to yourself.
25
26 /Vitaly

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild info: author, maintainer and copyrights Chris Houser <chouser@g.o>