On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote: > A former co-worker of mine is now at Google and wants to contribute > ebuilds he wrote for ChromeOS to Gentoo. They add packages necessary > for Vulkan (new 3D graphics API). > > For instance: > https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/chromiumos-overlay/+/master/media-libs/vulkan-loader/vulkan-loader-1.0.24.0.ebuild > > The copyright header says "Copyright 2016 The Chromium OS Authors. All > rights reserved." All ebuilds in gentoo.git say "Copyright 1999-20xx > Gentoo Foundation". > > Can I add ebuilds copyrighted by others to gentoo.git? >
As long as you have their permission to change the copyright notice. You cannot currently commit anything with a different copyright notice to gentoo.git, and you cannot legally change it without permission. -- Rich
