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On 2018-11-14 19:59, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> I think the impact of allowing multi-line traditional copyright in the |
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> gentoo repo (which is acceptable according to GLEP 76, but not |
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> necessarily according to repo policy right now) is going to be |
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> minimal, to be honest. The vast majority of us I expect will be happy |
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> with "Copyright [years] Gentoo Authors" simplified attribution. |
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This is a big misunderstanding and was probably the biggest mistake we |
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(the people directly involved) made, when we proposed the GLEP text. |
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Like ulm said in another branch of this thread, we added that exception |
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for *external* code. To be prepared if we ever need to handle that. |
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At no time we thought about that any contributor could *abuse* that |
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paragraph to add a copyright notice into our normal repositories, |
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especially in ebuilds. |
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Now we have to deal with arguments like "It isn't explicit forbidden so |
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it is allowed", great. |
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Regards, |
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Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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