Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: converting copyright/license information in OpenRC

[William Hubbs]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 09:04:47PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, William Hubbs wrote:
>
> > currently, OpenRC has file-based copyright/licensing information.
> > I would like to centralize all of this information, following the
> > centralized model described here [1].
>
> > This would mean that, at the top of each file, there would be a
> > copyright notice stating:
>
> > Copyright <years> OpenRC authors
>
> > [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]
>
> 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