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authorUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2018-06-17 20:59:59 +0200
committerUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2018-06-17 20:59:59 +0200
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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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@@ -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
=========