commit: 29ec3eec63ed6de47cd4dccb763305e74b04336f Author: Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Tue May 29 13:35:50 2018 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Sun Jun 10 18:42:07 2018 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?id=29ec3eec
glep-0076: Provide a short rationale to the policy glep-0076.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst index a57aa6b..cb3f611 100644 --- a/glep-0076.rst +++ b/glep-0076.rst @@ -216,6 +216,25 @@ attributing copyright. Rationale ========= +This document aims to provide a single consistent copyright policy for +all Gentoo projects. It is explicitly enforced for all official Gentoo +projects in order to protect the interests of Gentoo as a whole, +including its contributors, developers and users. Additionally, it is +enforced for all other projects hosted on Gentoo infrastructure in order +to protect the Gentoo infrastructure owners and improve consistency. + +The copyright model is built on a combination of DCO model used +by the Linux kernel with FLA model used by different open source +projects. It requires all contributors to certify the legitimacy +of their contributions; however, they can freely choose whether to +assign the copyright to Gentoo, or not. + +Ideally, all major contributors to Gentoo would choose to sign the FLA. +However, enforcing it for all contributors would only create unnecessary +bureaucracy for trivial contributions and discourage a number of users +from actually contributing to Gentoo. The mixed model allows users to +choose a way of contributing that is appropriate to them. + Key dates in Gentoo copyright history =====================================
