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On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 06:04:00PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 9:48 AM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> The GLEP says about the "Simplified Attribution": |
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> > Projects using this scheme must track authorship in a VCS, unless they list all authors of copyrightable contributions in an AUTHORS file. |
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> Would it be acceptable on your side to be listed in the AUTHORS file |
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> (which as far as I know has not been created yet)? |
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I will get this answer today once I get to the office. |
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There was also talk about adding a tag to commits that listed the |
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copyright holder for that commit but it never went anywhere. I would |
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propose something like: |
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Copyright: <copyright notice> |
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> I'd be perfectly happy to ship an AUTHORS file in the ebuild repo that |
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> contains the names and emails of everyone and every company that has |
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> contributed to the repo. |
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We probably should do this anyway and ship the AUTHORS file as part of |
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the rsync repository. You don't need it for the git repo since the |
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information is available via VCS. |
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