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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 8:55 AM Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:43:52 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > >>>>> On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: |
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> > > Hello all! |
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> > > 14 October (in 2 weeks from now) |
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> > > at 19:00 UTC Council will meet again. |
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> > > Please provide agenda items you would like council@ to |
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> > > look at (and act) as a reply to this email. |
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> > The new copyright policy (GLEP 76) leaves it to projects to decide |
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> > whether they use the long form or the simplified form of the copyright |
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> > attribution. I would like to ask the council to decide that the |
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> > simplified attribution [1] shall be used for ebuilds in the Gentoo |
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> > repository. |
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> I'd like to voice strongly against this motion. |
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> Rationale: |
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> - We have out of the Gentoo repository ebuilds which may be |
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> incorporated in the main repository and are licensed properly but |
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> an author requires his copyright in the first line to be preserved. |
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> GPL-2 allows us to use such ebuilds, but our past copyright policy |
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> mandating "Gentoo Foundation" doesn't, as well as proposed motion |
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> which mandates "Gentoo Authors" instead of the list of authors |
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> including main author if they require so. |
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> - GLEP 76 already did significant harm to our community by |
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> outlawing current anonymous or pseudonymous contributions. Moreover |
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> we have people who want to join community, but keep their identity |
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> hidden. This is understandable, especially for security or privacy |
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> oriented software. The harm should go no further. We have a lot of |
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> talks how we need more developers, but what we are doing in many |
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> steps including GLEP 76 is exactly the opposite: we are creating |
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> additional barriers due to vague and bureaucratic reasons. |
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> Of course if authors wants to use "Gentoo Authors" this should be |
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> allowed, especially for automatic migration from the "Gentoo |
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> Foundation" line. But we must preserve the right to use explicit |
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> list of authors (including "and others" if necessary) if a |
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> maintainer wants so. |
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My reading of ulm's proposal is that it is allowed. |
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Ebuilds "shall" use the simple attribution, not that they "must" use it. |
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To me that implies the simple attribution should be the default, but the |
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complex attribution is acceptable in the ::gentoo repo. |
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding the proposal? |
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-A |
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> Best regards, |
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> Andrew Savchenko |
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