Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: copyright attribution clarifications

[William Hubbs]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:20:52AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 06:04:00PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 9:48 AM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > The GLEP says about the "Simplified Attribution":
> >
> > > Projects using this scheme must track authorship in a VCS, unless they list all authors of copyrightable contributions in an AUTHORS file.
> >
> > Would it be acceptable on your side to be listed in the AUTHORS file
> > (which as far as I know has not been created yet)?
>
> I will get this answer today once I get to the office.
>
> There was also talk about adding a tag to commits that listed the
> copyright holder for that commit but it never went anywhere. I would
> propose something like:
>
> Copyright: <copyright notice>
 
Putting the copyright notice in the commits might be the way to do this.
If that's what we want, I suggest something like my example above.

> > I'd be perfectly happy to ship an AUTHORS file in the ebuild repo that
> > contains the names and emails of everyone and every company that has
> > contributed to the repo.
>
> We probably should do this anyway and ship the AUTHORS file as part of
> the rsync repository. You don't need it for the git repo since the
> information is available via VCS.

The AUTHORS file will contain AUTHORS, not copyright holders.  Usually
they are the same, but not always.

So, I guess the question becomes, what do we want to do for Copyright
holders in the the rsync repository?

William