Created attachment 557480 [details, diff] glep-0076: Clarify that there can be more than one copyright notice. Following today's council meeting, it was noticed that some (non-ebuild) files may require more than one copyright notice, especially if such notices were already in place when importing the file. See attached patch for clarification. I believe that this qualifies as an editorial change, and I'll commit it in one week from now, unless there are objections (in which case I would ask for a council vote in this bug).
I consider the current version (that can be read as disallowing multiple notices) in effect and ebuild files containing multiple notices a violation of it. As such, a change should be preceded by Gentoo package repository policy tightening to keep disallowing multiple notices there, or a clear choice to not do so and officially allow copyright notices potentially taking more visual space than the actual content. I don't see a problem in amending things to allow multiple notices for other use cases, such as C source files.
(In reply to Mart Raudsepp from comment #1) As I see it, the issue of bug 670702 is not so much about single vs multiple notices, but about "Gentoo Authors" vs a notice explicitly listing some entity. In other words, we don't want ebuilds with anything else than a simplified notice in the tree. IMHO the policy for the Gentoo repo (as accepted in the 2018-10-24 Council meeting) should be sufficient for that: The simplified form of the copyright attribution according to GLEP 76 [1], i.e., "Copyright YEARS Gentoo Authors", SHOULD [2] be used for ebuilds and profile files in the Gentoo repository. [1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html#simplified-attribution [2] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?id=2c51e26bc1510896d8e60cbf4b078a0063a5cab7 commit 2c51e26bc1510896d8e60cbf4b078a0063a5cab7 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-12-09 22:46:12 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-12-11 08:28:18 +0000 glep-0076: Clarify that there can be more than one copyright notice. For example, CC-BY-SA-4.0 and FDL-1.3 both require that previous copyright notices are left intact. Also it is not entirely clear if and how the DMCA (17 U.S. Code §1202) applies to works released under a free software license. No update of version number because this is an editorial change. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/672848 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> glep-0076.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
