Daniel Robbins said in August:

"I've been trying to get people to keep their names in the copyright line for
over a year, but no one has really started doing it. To my knowledge, it is
better to have multiple official copyright holders for GPL code than just a
single copyright holder. I would like all our ebuilds to have a copyright
like this:

# Copyright 2003 Gentoo Technologies, Joe User, and others (see cvs
# changelog.) Distributed under the GPL version 2.

I don't see why this would be a problem for anyone, and makes a lot more
sense than what we are doing now."

Since then I've submitted all my ebuilds with dual copyright lines, but never 
once been accepted as that. I've been told that the automated tools don't 
like a different line, and that "Seemant says "dual copyrights" are only 
accepted for special circumstances, e.g. when you're employed to do the work 
by an external entitity". 

On another note, it would be nice to see ebuilds accepted if there are no bug 
reports after a while.. I have ebuilds for new packages still sitting in 
bugzilla after half a year.


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