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On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:59:47 -0500 |
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Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> 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 |
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> > <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 |
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> > on putting their names in various places. |
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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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It would also discourage developers under deadlines from contributing |
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upstream rather than just adding to a local private repository. There |
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are some companies that strongly encourage their employees to upstream |
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any work done on an open source project, if any signifigant contribution |
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turns in to a git hsitory deep-dive, then they may opt to not |
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contribute at all, especially if they are under a deadline. |
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This discussion keeps me wondering whether Gentoo wants to make it easy |
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and painless to accept outside contribution (or coprorate |
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contribution), or if they want to make it so painful for corporations |
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to contribute that most opt not to do it at all. I personally think |
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that the more developer time that can spent on improving Gentoo, the |
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better. If increasing the developers fixing bugs and adding features |
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requires accepting some extra lines (or one _very_ long line at the |
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start of a file) at the top of some small percentage of ebuilds in the |
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tree, then it is worth it. |
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rich0 mentioned earlier in this thread that developer eyeballs is far |
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more valuable than CPU time, isn't having paid developers working on |
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fixing and improving Gentoo valuable? That can add up to quite a large |
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amount of developer time that would not otherwise be spent. We have |
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lost many developers who had life changes that reduced their free time |
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to work on Gentoo, in the case where a developer can work on Gentoo in |
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their day job, then that can help avoid losing valuable contributions. |
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