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author | 2018-06-07 20:33:28 +0200 | |
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committer | 2018-06-10 20:42:07 +0200 | |
commit | d1f0fd9be4e67adc72a619ac4193c36e3becf175 (patch) | |
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parent | glep-0076: Add mgorny to the author list. (diff) | |
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glep-0076: Remove FLA section.
Therefore simplifying the policy, as discussed in #gentoo-council.
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diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst index ac42e2d..84671b9 100644 --- a/glep-0076.rst +++ b/glep-0076.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Type: Informational Status: Draft Version: 1 Created: 2013-04-23 -Last-Modified: 2018-06-03 +Last-Modified: 2018-06-07 Post-History: Content-Type: text/x-rst --- @@ -72,10 +72,9 @@ License Agreement [#FLA]_, which takes a copyleft approach to copyright licensing, while also better complying with copyright laws in nations that have author's rights. -The goal here was to create a policy that was both flexible enough to -cover forks and situations where Gentoo would not own the majority of -the copyright in a file, while also preserving our ability to formally -own copyrights on as much of our works as possible. +The goal here was to create a policy that was flexible enough to cover +forks and situations where Gentoo would not own the majority of the +copyright in a file. Specification @@ -192,28 +191,6 @@ Any concerns not addressed by a maintainer can be appealed to the Trustees. -Licensing to the Gentoo Foundation ----------------------------------- - -All are welcome and encouraged (but *not* required) to assign copyright -for their contributions to the Gentoo Foundation. Doing so makes -compliance with this policy easier (fewer copyright holders to list), -and allows the Foundation to enforce copyrights and re-license content -if appropriate (this will only be done in accordance with the social -contract and the Gentoo FLA). - -Copyright is assigned to the Foundation by electronically signing the -Gentoo Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) [#GFLA]_. - -The agreement may be signed BY **TODO...** If the scope of the signed -agreement included future contributions, the contributor may document -their wish to stop assigning copyright by **TODO...** - -A list of those who have signed this agreement and the scope of their -assignments may be found at **LINK**. This list may be useful when -attributing copyright. - - Rationale ========= @@ -227,17 +204,14 @@ 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. +The copyright model is built on the DCO model used by the Linux kernel +and requires all contributors to certify the legitimacy of their +contributions. -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. +In the future, a second stage of this policy may use a combination of +the DCO model and an FLA model [#FLA]_ as it is used by different open +source projects. Contributors would be able to freely choose whether +they sign the FLA document or not. DCO Changes @@ -376,9 +350,6 @@ References .. [#FLA] FSFE Legal: Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA), https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fla.en.html -.. [#GFLA] Gentoo Fiduciary License Agreement, - https://dev.gentoo.org/~rich0/fla.pdf - .. [#DEBIAN-LICENSE] [debian-legal] License of the GPL license, https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2018/04/msg00006.html |