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On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote: |
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> A former co-worker of mine is now at Google and wants to contribute |
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> ebuilds he wrote for ChromeOS to Gentoo. They add packages necessary |
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> for Vulkan (new 3D graphics API). |
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> For instance: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/chromiumos-overlay/+/master/media-libs/vulkan-loader/vulkan-loader-1.0.24.0.ebuild |
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> The copyright header says "Copyright 2016 The Chromium OS Authors. All |
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> rights reserved." All ebuilds in gentoo.git say "Copyright 1999-20xx |
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> Gentoo Foundation". |
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> Can I add ebuilds copyrighted by others to gentoo.git? |
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As long as you have their permission to change the copyright notice. |
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You cannot currently commit anything with a different copyright notice |
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to gentoo.git, and you cannot legally change it without permission. |
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Rich |
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