Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2019-01-13

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 11:34:38PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Since we now have an AUTHORS file in the Gentoo repository, I would
> like to resubmit my original proposal from October 2018 about copyright
> attribution [1]. That is, update the tree policy as follows:
>
>    The simplified form of the copyright attribution according to
>    GLEP 76 [2], i.e., "Copyright YEARS Gentoo Authors", SHALL [3]
>    be used for ebuilds and profile files in the Gentoo repository.
>
> The only change is that "SHALL" will be present instead of past tense.
For the record, can you clarify what attribution should be used for the
following files in the Gentoo repository?
- eclasses
- init files & other scripts
- patches (written by a Gentoo developer vs external contributor)

As a specific case, if a new package is submitted with an openrc init
script written by the contributor, and they have their name in it;
should that remain intact (and what should be done later when modifying
that file).

This would hopefully be the start of a attribution example guide that
could provide clear examples (which don't belong in the GLEP itself).

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer
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