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authorUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2018-06-17 11:21:13 +0200
committerUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2018-06-17 14:51:51 +0200
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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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@@ -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.
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