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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-project <gentoo-project@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: copyright attribution clarifications
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:12:03
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=aorq77K2P=3Uy4Q8uCrf-jf36OOWtxV7N_igFSKjZuw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: copyright attribution clarifications by Sarah White
1 On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 3:51 PM Sarah White <kuzetsa@××××××××××.ovh> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 11/23/18 3:42 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
4 > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 3:23 PM Sarah White <kuzetsa@××××××××××.ovh> wrote:
5 > >>
6 > >> On 11/23/18 2:46 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
7 > >>> Nobody is suggesting that multiple copyright owners shouldn't be
8 > >>> allowed. Merely that multiple copyright owners shouldn't be named in
9 > >>> the copyright notice.
10 > >>
11 > >> The interest in removing or discouraging a more verbose,
12 > >> explicit copyright notice would suggest the only legitimate
13 > >> interest should be assumed to be in "gentoo authors", and
14 > >> for no other entity(s) or person(s) need have any stake
15 > >> in having a well-structured copyright notice (any format)
16 > >
17 > > I'm not sure what "well-structured" means.
18 >
19 > SPDX is well-structured, and was previously given
20 > as an example (I believe it was in this thread)
21
22 Great, so stick this in your git commit:
23 SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
24
25 That isn't a copyright notice anyway, so I see it as orthogonal to the
26 issue of notice.
27
28 --
29 Rich

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Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: copyright attribution clarifications Sarah White <kuzetsa@××××××××××.ovh>