On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 13:10 -0500, Anthony de Boer wrote:
> Tying this to the Portage-tree collection-copyright issue, it might be a
> good idea for all third-party-sourced patches, with e-mail headers or
> other such authorship/source/copyright information still intact at the
> start (and happily skipped by the patch command), to be gzipped and put
> in distfiles, and the tree itself to be reserved for stuff written
> specifically for the Gentoo project.

Really, they should all be in distfiles.

> This does still leave large Gentoo-supplied patches in question; I'm
> uncomfortable with the idea of us getting *that* far from the upstream
> sources, though.

They could get a copyright notice and get stuck in distfiles.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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