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On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 06:38:45PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 3:12 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:20:52AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 06:04:00PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> > > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 9:48 AM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > > |
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> > > > The GLEP says about the "Simplified Attribution": |
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> > > > > Projects using this scheme must track authorship in a VCS, unless they list all authors of copyrightable contributions in an AUTHORS file. |
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> > > > Would it be acceptable on your side to be listed in the AUTHORS file |
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> > > > (which as far as I know has not been created yet)? |
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> > > I will get this answer today once I get to the office. |
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> > > There was also talk about adding a tag to commits that listed the |
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> > > copyright holder for that commit but it never went anywhere. I would |
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> > > propose something like: |
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> > > Copyright: <copyright notice> |
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> > Putting the copyright notice in the commits might be the way to do this. |
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> > If that's what we want, I suggest something like my example above. |
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> > > > I'd be perfectly happy to ship an AUTHORS file in the ebuild repo that |
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> > > > contains the names and emails of everyone and every company that has |
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> > > > contributed to the repo. |
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> > > We probably should do this anyway and ship the AUTHORS file as part of |
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> > > the rsync repository. You don't need it for the git repo since the |
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> > > information is available via VCS. |
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> > The AUTHORS file will contain AUTHORS, not copyright holders. Usually |
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> > they are the same, but not always. |
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> Let me try to explain what I'm suggesting. |
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> As I understand it, the Simplified Attribution, which looks like |
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> | Copyright YEARS Gentoo Authors |
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> is like a pointer to the AUTHORS file, indicating that those listed |
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> hold copyright on things in this repo. |
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> I'm suggesting that in lieu of listing copyright holders explicitly in |
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> each file (which as we've discussed is a pain, inaccurate, and |
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> requires tedious maintenance) that we list copyright holders in the |
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> AUTHORS file and use the Simplified Attribution nearly exclusively. |
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Do you mean the way it is suggested here without the discussion of the |
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CLA since we do not use a CLA? |
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https://opensource.google.com/docs/releasing/authors/ |
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That would also mean we don't have to list everyone, just those |
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copyright holders who wish to be listed. |
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William |