commit: 9b73e955e4c96dfe65752c7ddbd5385d928eef5d Author: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2 <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Fri Apr 20 22:51:15 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=9b73e955
glep-0076: Motivation: Improve readability re forked projects. Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2 <AT> gentoo.org> glep-0076.rst | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst index 31b8c35..7bb4893 100644 --- a/glep-0076.rst +++ b/glep-0076.rst @@ -35,13 +35,14 @@ time these formal agreements no longer were being signed, but the headers remained, and were enshrined in policy. This led to a situation where copyright ownership might be ambiguous. -Also, the general policy to have Gentoo Foundation copyright notices -caused an issue when Gentoo developers forked another project and -hosted the fork on Gentoo infrastructure. To comply with the previous -policy the copyright notices were modified, which caused concerns -with the project the files were forked from. Our previous policy -completely neglected the possibility that Gentoo might want to host -files that were not created internally. +Also, the policy to have copyright notices ascribing copyright +ownership to the Gentoo Foundation caused an issue when Gentoo +developers forked another project and hosted the fork on Gentoo +infrastructure. To comply with the previous policy the copyright +notices were modified, which caused concerns with the project the +files were forked from. Our previous policy completely neglected +the possibility that Gentoo might want to host files that were not +created internally. Finally, since the early days of Gentoo new ideas around copyright licensing have become more popular, such as the FSFE's Fiduciary
