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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] GLEP 76: Copyright Policy
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 02:18:30
Message-Id: 20180617141805.20610952@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] GLEP 76: Copyright Policy by William Hubbs
1 On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:44:35 -0500
2 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > The contributors can be found via "git log" or "git blame", so it isn't
5 > that hard to determine who they are.
6
7 *caveat: git blame cannot be used usefully in the gentoo portage repo,
8 as it does not retain contributor data in any meaningful way.
9
10 git log and inferences made by analysing the log is the only way to
11 determine contributors, and then it is only a 90% solution.