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By GLEP 76, two forms of copyright notices are allowed for copyrightable |
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files in Gentoo projects: |
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A "long form": |
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Copyright YEARS MAIN-CONTRIBUTOR [OTHER-CONTRIBUTOR]... [and others] |
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or a "simplified form": |
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Copyright YEARS Gentoo Authors |
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The latter was introduced because keeping track of ebuild authors is |
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close to impossible. We didn't want to put any burden on developers to |
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decide when information about the main contributor should be updated |
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in the notice. Or, by the GLEP's own wording: "Especially for ebuild |
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repositories, constantly keeping track of the main copyright holder |
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of any file would be rather inconvenient and tedious." |
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Therefore, the recommendation is to use the simplified form (i.e., |
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"Gentoo Authors") in the Gentoo repository, at least for ebuilds and |
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profile files. |
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Also, when doing a simple version bump based on a previous ebuild, the |
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existing starting year should be kept. (I am aware that for most ebuilds |
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1999 will not be correct either. Not sure if aiming for something more |
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accurate would be worth the effort, though.) |
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Ulrich |
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