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On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:12:26AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> All, |
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> based on the previous thread about copyright attribution clarifications, |
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> I want to add the following AUTHORS file to the top level of the portage |
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> repository if no one objects. |
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> This is based on the description of the AUTHORS file at Google [1]. |
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> Everyone is not required to be listed, but there is no reason you can't |
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> add yourself if you have contributed to the tree and want to be listed. |
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> I hope this will satisfy everyone involved in the discussion. |
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> Thoughts? |
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It seems to me this will grow huge, and be the source of annoyance for |
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users. |
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There's a plausible opinion that today's Unixes will stay around |
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forever: |
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https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/DurableCurrentUnixes |
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And obviously Gentoo is the best flavour of them, so... |
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Are there any long-lived community FOSS projects maintaining such file? |
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FFmpeg had such one (CREDITS file), but eschewed it in 2013 for a short |
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notice "check git log". |
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