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 E497D1384B4 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98B3521C03F; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:24:27 +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 78640E087C for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:24:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4CD834069A for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:24:22 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: converting copyright/license information in OpenRC Message-ID: <20151215192422.GC11489@vapier.lan> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20151211153926.GA6071@linux1> <22123.11359.157821.93633@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20151211213748.GA31218@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <20151211141630.618f4678@gentoo.org> <20151215050507.GK11489@vapier.lan> <20151215153136.GA5978@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> 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-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jsPfIFFSl8FDH/0l" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151215153136.GA5978@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> X-Archives-Salt: 36dfeffd-18bc-4155-9d88-e9e07bf1ade4 X-Archives-Hash: afc1b99042ba6c83b523b6d49106678b --jsPfIFFSl8FDH/0l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 15 Dec 2015 09:31, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:05:07AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On 11 Dec 2015 14:16, Patrick McLean wrote: > > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:37:48 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 09:04:47PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > >>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, William Hubbs wrote: =20 > > > > > =20 > > > > Well, the OpenRC project is currently inconsistent about this, so t= he > > > > intention is to make it consistent. > > > >=20 > > > > The .c/.h files have file-scope licenses, but that isn't true for > > > > everything in the project. > > > >=20 > > > > 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. > > > >=20 > > > > My theory is I can probably use git to find out who all of the auth= ors > > > > are, and generate an Authors list from that information and from > > > > looking at copyright notices. > > >=20 > > > One concern about this is the possibility of copied code. If OpenRC > > > ever copied code from other BSD licensed projects, then dropping the > > > notice from the top of the file would be a violation of the upstream > > > license. > >=20 > > OpenRC isn't purely Gentoo copyright, so it's already a violation. > > the majority of entries belong to Roy. >=20 > I have no idea what you mean by "it's already a violation", and I'm not > sure what Gentoo Copyright has to do with it. your description sounds like you want to run: s/Copyright .*/Copyright OpenRC Authors/ i'm saying you can't do that > Altering Copyright statements to try to claim Gentoo copyright would > definitely be a violation, but that's not what I'm wanting to do. adding multiple entries isn't a problem and in fact could/should be done in most openrc files at this time -mike --jsPfIFFSl8FDH/0l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWcGjmAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBh4UP/i988Nrs6+3zUdmu/qxDs8QR JShiAUziiMvT+gShYFoI7oo5FG3M7mAKBQOoP3xTxex1mmwhGT1SH+jnBa3K50a+ yUrVaLMlDqJgMD2RrpEaWjmSzSS310OIX6SQnB7h0ze1iES+mqL3gsJyNmv7YWoM q/PGSbPTAFHkeAxOPvxgJs3lXz3b8xEqPcxTvvBOb/ft8gO28QWeQmw0xI/WBsaG YBzck7QV/8AwYW98xp+0qoT7LfF24SsByd9mMlG0PtiBW3V+MS1YV5LeoW7tlO0R 6q6g+2/3TmgnwFiNedALbcrWC3T4OurXKPGoCN8RrQXJS967Ecn6v0QT15jH999u STBowIBUUkI9yj6gHrzkCTCC+pGUaBSQ25xuOXlJNDLIEdpQdNK3XvY0K9hzF9VM HI7DV2YS2XKRO0oxatxMIjMWMIwvqr7TIMTdGXQr5LKUYrqrjBprpO63jNsj18rl GRWeFZb1KcHyHxLHZZYwbe7WAlcU5G2JZHBY1hyuDf0+J9GhYsH8cjhlTeLk9Z/j aKEu+WL8soDSkNj2iMFIY+2paoEtlnnIFQBbZq5lidGfnzagrQGLiEg/B/f1CgQe y8urphUFBeCzfezUd629821L3UyJmxxOh5eoz/seHcZiyjNnfZMPsrn8xGvnhG3L VB71MnK1SG1Omk0SPYNl =xUYk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jsPfIFFSl8FDH/0l--