From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FF01384B4 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02C4221C074; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2E5721C040 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [100.42.103.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: williamh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 10188340885; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:37:48 -0600 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: licenses@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: converting copyright/license information in OpenRC Message-ID: <20151211213748.GA31218@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, licenses@gentoo.org References: <20151211153926.GA6071@linux1> <22123.11359.157821.93633@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <22123.11359.157821.93633@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: 3062c890-d07b-47cf-a61f-a17d311d69be X-Archives-Hash: 01f718c07ceface78c7fb968b475c82b --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 09:04:47PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, William Hubbs wrote: >=20 > > currently, OpenRC has file-based copyright/licensing information. > > I would like to centralize all of this information, following the > > centralized model described here [1]. >=20 > > This would mean that, at the top of each file, there would be a > > copyright notice stating: >=20 > > Copyright OpenRC authors >=20 > > [with the licensing information from the page I am referring to > > mentioning the license and a copy of the license at the top level of > > the distro] >=20 > OpenRC is licensed under BSD-2, right? That license is rather short, > not much longer than the license notice from [1]. So I wonder if > centralising this is worth the effort. (It also adds one level of > indirection.) Well, the OpenRC project is currently inconsistent about this, so the intention is to make it consistent. The .c/.h files have file-scope licenses, but that isn't true for everything in the project. I am willing to make the effort to do this, I was just wondering if there are any legal pitfalls I need to worry about. My theory is I can probably use git to find out who all of the authors are, and generate an Authors list from that information and from looking at copyright notices. William --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZrQiwACgkQblQW9DDEZTh0nQCeID/O4B2hSHjS276yVqwcUyYc z70An2AoMY72rl3u/DFrS4qCY4pbzHux =qnOg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24--