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Daniel Robbins said in August: |
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"I've been trying to get people to keep their names in the copyright line for |
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over a year, but no one has really started doing it. To my knowledge, it is |
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better to have multiple official copyright holders for GPL code than just a |
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single copyright holder. I would like all our ebuilds to have a copyright |
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like this: |
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# Copyright 2003 Gentoo Technologies, Joe User, and others (see cvs |
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# changelog.) Distributed under the GPL version 2. |
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I don't see why this would be a problem for anyone, and makes a lot more |
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sense than what we are doing now." |
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Since then I've submitted all my ebuilds with dual copyright lines, but never |
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once been accepted as that. I've been told that the automated tools don't |
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like a different line, and that "Seemant says "dual copyrights" are only |
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accepted for special circumstances, e.g. when you're employed to do the work |
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by an external entitity". |
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On another note, it would be nice to see ebuilds accepted if there are no bug |
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reports after a while.. I have ebuilds for new packages still sitting in |
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bugzilla after half a year. |
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