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author | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2018-06-17 20:59:59 +0200 |
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committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2018-06-17 20:59:59 +0200 |
commit | 8b49e368a7fc02b1414fdf691c23f41618d6b86a (patch) | |
tree | 9a187f25dd717c6d1bbe930ad74de1eab3932916 | |
parent | glep-0076: Update copyright attribution section. (diff) | |
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glep-0076: Allow for simplified form of copyright notice.
Thanks to Matija Šuklje for pointing me to the Chromium project's
information for contributors.
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diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst index c93ca04..7ac5006 100644 --- a/glep-0076.rst +++ b/glep-0076.rst @@ -200,6 +200,18 @@ Any concerns not addressed by a maintainer can be appealed to the Trustees. +Simplified Attribution +---------------------- + +Alternatively, projects are welcome to use a simplified form of the +copyright notice, which reads:: + + Copyright YEARS The Gentoo Authors + +Projects using this scheme must track authorship in a VCS, unless they +list all authors of copyrightable contributions in an ``AUTHORS`` file. + + Rationale ========= @@ -291,6 +303,17 @@ more appropriate to separate it from the enumeration by putting it in a separate paragraph. +Copyright Notice +---------------- + +Especially for ebuild repositories, constantly keeping track of the +main copyright holder of any file would be rather inconvenient and +tedious. Therefore, projects are free to use either a traditional +copyright notice listing the individual author(s), or a simplified +notice with an attribution to "The Gentoo Authors". The latter +resembles the scheme used by the Chromium project [#CHROMIUM]_. + + Acknowledgements ================ @@ -330,6 +353,9 @@ References .. [#DEBIAN-LICENSE] [debian-legal] License of the GPL license, https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2018/04/msg00006.html +.. [#CHROMIUM] Chromium: Contributing Code, + https://www.chromium.org/developers/contributing-code#TOC-Legal-stuff + Copyright ========= |