glep-0076: Copyright policy.

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License: CC-BY-SA-3.0
Attribution: Richard Freeman, Alice Ferrazzi, Ulrich Müller

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+GLEP: 76
+Title: Copyright Policy
+Author: Richard Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>,
+        Alice Ferrazzi <alicef@gentoo.org>,
+        Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
+Type: Informational
+Status: Draft
+Version: 1
+Created: 2013-04-23
+Last-Modified: 2018-01-28
+Post-History: 
+Content-Type: text/x-rst
+---
+
+
+Status
+======
+
+The policies on this page have no effect!  These are draft policies up
+for discussion, not final versions.
+
+
+Abstract
+========
+
+
+Motivation
+==========
+
+
+Specification
+=============
+
+Purpose / Scope
+---------------
+
+This policy documents how Gentoo contributors comply and document
+copyright for any contributions made to Gentoo.  Anyone committing
+documentation or sources to any repository hosted on Gentoo
+infrastructure must comply with this policy.
+
+Questions regarding this policy should be directed to the trustees or
+the -project list.  Any concerns over possible copyright violations
+should be directed to the Trustees if they cannot be worked out to
+anyone's satisfaction with the appropriate maintainer.
+
+
+Licensing of Gentoo Projects
+----------------------------
+
+Every Gentoo project must abide by the Gentoo Social Contract
+[#SOCIAL-CONTRACT]_ and release its work under one or more of the
+following:
+
+a) The GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPL-2+)
+   [#GPL-2]_.
+
+b) The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License
+   (CC-BY-SA-3.0, only for documentation) [#CC-BY-SA-3.0]_.
+   *[Note: or version 4.0, to be decided]*
+
+c) A license approved as GPL compatible by the Free Software
+   Foundation [#GPL-COMPAT]_.
+
+Exceptions for other free software licenses will be granted by the
+Gentoo Foundation on a case by case basis.
+
+For easy reference, the license for each project should be documented
+on the wiki page at [#PROJECTS]_.
+
+
+Certificate of Origin
+---------------------
+
+All commits to Gentoo-hosted repositories shall be accompanied by a
+certificate of origin.  The purpose of the certificate is to declare
+that the contribution can be modified and redistributed in accordance
+with the project's license.
+
+For commits made using a VCS, the committer shall certify agreement
+to the Gentoo DCO by adding ``Signed-off-by: Name <e-mail>`` to the
+commit message as a separate line.
+
+The following is the current Gentoo DCO 1.0::
+
+    Gentoo Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.0
+
+    By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
+
+    (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me, and I have
+        the right to submit it under the free software license indicated
+        in the file; or
+
+    (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
+        of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate free software
+        license, and I have the right under that license to submit that
+        work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by
+        me, under the same free software license (unless I am permitted
+        to submit under a different license), as indicated in the file; or
+
+    (c) The contribution is a license text (or a file of similar nature),
+        and verbatim distribution is allowed; or
+
+    (d) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person
+        who certified (a), (b), (c), or (d), and I have not modified it.
+
+    I understand and agree that this project and the contribution are
+    public and that a record of the contribution (including all personal
+    information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is maintained
+    indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or
+    the free software license(s) involved.
+
+The Gentoo DCO is licensed under a Creative Commons
+Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License [#CC-BY-SA-3.0]_.
+It is based on the Linux Kernel DCO [#OSDL-DCO]_, released by Open
+Source Development Labs, Inc. in 2005 under a CC-BY-SA-2.5 License,
+and distributed by the Linux Foundation as part of the kernel source
+tree [#SUBMITTING-PATCHES]_ under GPL-2.
+
+
+Copyright Attribution
+---------------------
+
+All files hosted by Gentoo must contain an appropriate copyright
+notice, as defined by this policy.
+
+A proper copyright notice appears near the top of the file, and reads,
+``Copyright YEAR LARGEST-CONTRIBUTOR and others (see below).``
+The largest contributor is whatever entity owns copyright to some
+portion of the largest number of lines in the file.  The ``and others
+(see below)`` text may be omitted if the largest contributor holds
+copyright to the entire file.
+
+If there are other copyright holders, then somewhere in the file the
+full list of copyright holders must be listed, or a reference to a
+list in another file stored in a Gentoo repository.
+
+No file may be committed to a Gentoo repository unless at least 60% of
+the lines in the file are accounted for in the list of copyright
+holders.  Any content already in a Gentoo repository as of DATE shall
+count towards the 60% rule even if not attributed.  Note that 60% is
+the minimum required for compliance with this policy - all
+contributors are strongly encouraged to strive for 100% attribution.
+
+It is the responsibility of anyone making a commit to update the
+contributor list for any additions made to the repository.  Committers
+are not required to double-check content already in the repository.
+
+Anyone finding a file out of compliance should log a bug against the
+associated project/package providing as much information as possible.
+Files that are not brought into compliance within 60 days or upon a
+request for removal by a aggrieved copyright holder will be removed.
+Any concerns not addressed by a maintainer can be appealed to the
+Trustees.
+
+
+Licensing to the Gentoo Foundation
+----------------------------------
+
+All are welcome and encouraged (but NOT required) to assign copyright
+for their contributions to the Gentoo Foundation.  Doing so makes
+compliance with this policy easier (fewer copyright holders to list),
+and allows the Foundation to enforce copyrights and re-license content
+if appropriate (this will only be done in accordance with the social
+contract and the FLA).
+
+Copyright is assigned to the Foundation by electronically signing the
+Gentoo Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) [#FLA]_.
+
+The agreement may be signed BY **TODO...**  If the scope of the signed
+agreement included future contributions, the contributor may document
+their wish to stop assigning copyright by **TODO...**
+
+A list of those who have signed this agreement and the scope of their
+assignments may be found at **LINK**.  This list may be useful when
+attributing copyright.
+
+
+Rationale
+=========
+
+
+References
+==========
+
+.. [#SOCIAL-CONTRACT] Gentoo Social Contract,
+   https://www.gentoo.org/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.html
+
+.. [#GPL-2] GNU General Public License, version 2 or later,
+   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
+
+.. [#CC-BY-SA-3.0] Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
+   Unported License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
+
+.. [#GPL-COMPAT] GPL-compatible free software licenses,
+   https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
+
+.. [#PROJECTS] Licensing of Gentoo projects,
+   https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Licenses/Licensing_of_Gentoo_projects
+
+.. [#OSDL-DCO] Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1,
+   https://web.archive.org/web/20060524185355/http://www.osdlab.org/newsroom/press_releases/2004/2004_05_24_dco.html
+
+.. [#SUBMITTING-PATCHES] Submitting patches: the essential guide to
+   getting your code into the kernel,
+   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+
+.. [#FLA] Gentoo Fiduciary License Agreement,
+   https://dev.gentoo.org/~rich0/fla.pdf
+
+
+Copyright
+=========
+
+This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
+Unported License.  To view a copy of this license, visit
+http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.