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diff --git a/CopyrightPolicy.mw b/CopyrightPolicy.mw index 53e8a73..3bac322 100644 --- a/CopyrightPolicy.mw +++ b/CopyrightPolicy.mw @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ This policy documents how Gentoo contributors comply and document copyright for Questions regarding this policy should be directed to the trustees or the -project list. Any concerns over possible copyright violations should be directed to the Trustees if they cannot be worked out to anyone's satisfaction with the appropriate maintainer. -==== Licensing of Gentoo Projects ==== +=== Licensing of Gentoo Projects === Every Gentoo project must abide by the Gentoo Social Contract and release its work under one or more of the following: <ol type="a"> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Exceptions for other free software licenses will be granted by the Gentoo Founda For easy reference, the license for each project should be documented at [[Project:Licenses/Licensing of Gentoo projects]]. -==== Gentoo Developer's Certificate of Origin ==== +=== Gentoo Developer's Certificate of Origin === All commits to Gentoo-hosted repositories must be accompanied by a certificate of origin. The purpose of the certificate is to declare that the content of the commit may be used in accordance with the project license. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The following is the current Gentoo DCO 1.0: </pre> <i>The Gentoo DCO is based on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20060524185355/http://www.osdlab.org/newsroom/press_releases/2004/2004_05_24_dco.html Linux Kernel DCO], released by Open Source Development Labs, Inc. in 2005 under a CC-BY-SA-2.5 License, and distributed by the Linux Foundation as [https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst part of the kernel source tree] under GPL-2.</i> -==== Special license ==== +=== Special license === All files hosted by Gentoo must contain an appropriate copyright notice, as defined by this policy. @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ It is the responsibility of anyone making a commit to update the contributor lis Anyone finding a file out of compliance should log a bug against the associated project/package providing as much information as possible. Files that are not brought into compliance within 60 days or upon a request for removal by a aggrieved copyright holder will be removed. Any concerns not addressed by a maintainer can be appealed to the Trustees. -==== Licensing to the Gentoo Foundation ==== +=== 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 FLA). |