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>>>>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 08:05:20AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>> To say it with very simple words (and borrowing a phrase from the |
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>> old Ebuild HOWTO): There can be ebuilds in the Gentoo repository that |
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>> don't use the simplified attribution, but *your* ebuild should. |
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> Under this proposal, are copyright notices allowed that do not mention |
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> Gentoo Authors at all? |
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They are, if the ebuild is an original work that is written from |
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scratch. "Gentoo Authors" would be strongly preferred, though. |
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> I work for the same Company as dol-sen, and we may need to put the |
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> company's copyright on any new ebuilds we write on work time. |
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That would require us to constantly keep track if the entity listed in |
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the notice is still the main copyright holder, and I cannot predict how |
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much burden this would be for future maintenance. |
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Ulrich |
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