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On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 01:59:47PM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> On 2018-11-14 10:31 a.m., Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 6:36 AM Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> IMO the best solution will be to recommend "Gentoo Authors" |
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> >> attribution, but to allow additional copyright lines including the |
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> >> case where "Gentoo Authors" is one of such lines. |
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> > IMO doing this will just cause everybody and their uncle to insist on |
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> > putting their names in various places. |
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> I think the impact of allowing multi-line traditional copyright in the |
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> gentoo repo (which is acceptable according to GLEP 76, but not |
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> necessarily according to repo policy right now) is going to be |
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> minimal, to be honest. The vast majority of us I expect will be happy |
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> with "Copyright [years] Gentoo Authors" simplified attribution. |
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I personally am fine with this for things I do on my personal time, yes, |
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and I think most of us would be. |
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> It's also plenty easy enough to discourage the use of traditional |
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> copyright attribution by requiring a copyright audit be done whenever |
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> something gets converted from simplified to traditional -- that will |
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> be PLENTY enough of a pain to keep it from being performed except when |
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> corporate legal departments require it. |
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Well, there really wouldn't be much of an Audit to do if "Gentoo |
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Authors" is allowed in all attribution types as a catch-all. |
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# Copyright 1991-2018 Gentoo Authors |
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# Copyright [years] other copyright holder |
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Everything in the ebuild that other copyright holders don't hold |
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copyright on falls back to Gentoo Authors. |
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That would require a glep change, but I will write the patch for the |
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glep myself if we go for it. |
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William |
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