Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Alexander Berntsen <alexander@××××××.net>
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o, licenses@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Modified GLEP 2
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:24:07
Message-Id: 21168.27783.905822.331375@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Modified GLEP 2 by Alexander Berntsen
1 >>>>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
2
3 >> [A]sking [the authors] would obviously require some effort. So I'd
4 >> just leave things as they are.
5 > OK. I just did not realise you considered this too much effort.
6 > Thanks for the explanation.
7
8 In fact, asking is easy if people are still active. But if you look at
9 existing GLEPs, you'll find many retired devs as authors. Finding a
10 recent address where they can be contacted is the difficult part, and
11 isn't even guaranteed to succeed.
12
13 Ulrich