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author | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2018-06-17 11:21:13 +0200 |
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committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2018-06-17 14:51:51 +0200 |
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parent | glep-0076: Update Post-History. (diff) | |
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glep-0076: Update copyright attribution section.
Consider input from mailing lists and IRC:
- Require a license notice too.
- Assets like images won't allow for a notice in the file (mrueg).
- Don't rely on line counting, but state that the main copyright
holder must be listed.
Also some of the ideas of this section have been checked against
GNU maintainer documentation:
https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html
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diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst index 6066019..c93ca04 100644 --- a/glep-0076.rst +++ b/glep-0076.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Type: Informational Status: Draft Version: 1 Created: 2013-04-23 -Last-Modified: 2018-06-10 +Last-Modified: 2018-06-17 Post-History: 2018-06-10 Content-Type: text/x-rst --- @@ -174,18 +174,23 @@ Source Development Labs, Inc. in 2005 under a CC-BY-SA-2.5 License. Copyright Attribution --------------------- -All files included in Gentoo projects must contain an appropriate -copyright notice, as defined by this policy. +All copyrightable files included in Gentoo projects must contain +appropriate copyright and license notices, as defined by this policy. +For files in textual format, these notices normally appear near the +top of the file. When technical limitations do not allow for text +notices in the file itself (e.g., for binary image file formats), +copyright and license can be stated in an accompanying text file in +the same directory. -A proper copyright notice appears near the top of the file, and reads:: +A proper copyright notice reads:: - Copyright YEARS LARGEST-CONTRIBUTOR [OTHER-CONTRIBUTORS] and others + Copyright YEARS MAIN-CONTRIBUTOR [OTHER-CONTRIBUTOR]... [and others] -The largest contributor is whatever entity owns copyright to some -portion of the largest number of lines in the file. Additional -contributors can be listed, but this is neither required nor -recommended. The "and others" text may be omitted if the explicitly -listed contributors hold copyright to the entire file. +It must list the main copyright holder, who is usually the original +author, or the contributor holding copyright to the largest portion +of the file. Additional copyright holders can be listed, but this is +normally not required. The "and others" text may be omitted if the +explicitly listed contributors hold copyright to the entire file. Anyone finding a file out of compliance should file a bug against the associated project/package providing as much information as possible. @@ -291,8 +296,8 @@ Acknowledgements Many people have participated in invaluable discussions on this GLEP. In particular, the authors would like to thank David Abbott, -Roy Bamford, Kristian Fiskerstrand, Andreas K. Hüttel, Matija Šuklje, -Matthew Thode, and Alec Warner for their input. +Roy Bamford, Kristian Fiskerstrand, Andreas K. Hüttel, Manuel Rüger, +Matija Šuklje, Matthew Thode, and Alec Warner for their input. References |