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On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 13:10 -0500, Anthony de Boer wrote: |
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> Tying this to the Portage-tree collection-copyright issue, it might be a |
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> good idea for all third-party-sourced patches, with e-mail headers or |
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> other such authorship/source/copyright information still intact at the |
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> start (and happily skipped by the patch command), to be gzipped and put |
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> in distfiles, and the tree itself to be reserved for stuff written |
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> specifically for the Gentoo project. |
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Really, they should all be in distfiles. |
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> This does still leave large Gentoo-supplied patches in question; I'm |
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> uncomfortable with the idea of us getting *that* far from the upstream |
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> sources, though. |
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They could get a copyright notice and get stuck in distfiles. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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