Bug 814143

Summary:	0BSD shared license text lists a specific copyright year and author, instead of <YEAR> <OWNER> placeholders
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dan Callaghan <djc>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Licenses team <licenses>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ulm
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dan Callaghan 2021-09-21 00:25:10 UTC

In gentoo.git the licenses/0BSD shared license text currently begins:

Copyright (C) 2006, 2019 by Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>

which is from toybox, the project where the 0BSD license originated. However other projects can and have adopted this license and it's not accurate to say that they are all copyright Rob Landley.

The shared license text should probably use placeholders instead, for example licenses/BSD begins:

Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use 0BSD license for a project besides toybox

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2021-09-21 10:03:48 UTC

No "owner" please:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.en#CopyrightOwner

Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2021-09-21 10:06:25 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3f1f74ddd6e45e07827fe571c6f41b4b1225857e

commit 3f1f74ddd6e45e07827fe571c6f41b4b1225857e
Author:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-09-21 10:01:46 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-09-21 10:06:12 +0000

    licenses/0BSD: Use placeholders in copyright notice
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/814143
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>

 licenses/0BSD | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)