On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Can we just have repoman directly fix the entry automatically since in > itself is nearly-pointless? >
That would leave the door open to somebody arguing that the line was changed without their knowledge. Absent some kind of DCO that seems even more legally problematic than the current state, which I wholeheartedly agree isn't ideal. You can at least make an argument that in sticking that header line on their file people are implicitly assigning copyright in jurisdictions that recognize this. Whether that argument would hold up in court is difficult to say. > Another option is remove that header and just state that all the .ebuild are > under $license in a simpler way... > As I said in my other email, that might be a simpler way to go. Of course, does that make it acceptable to strip the copyright notice if it is already there? It seems like this caused a huge stir the last time the topic came up, which makes it possible that we end up with all kinds of random notices in random files which may or may not reflect the actual copyright status of the tree at the moment. The topic that originally raised this issue was the importing of files that already had copyright notices into a Gentoo repository, and the question of what to do with them. -- Rich
