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

[William Hubbs]

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:
> > > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> OpenRC isn't purely Gentoo copyright, so it's already a violation.
> the majority of entries belong to Roy.

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.

Altering Copyright statements to try to claim Gentoo copyright would
definitely be a violation, but that's not what I'm wanting to do.

My goal is to centralize the Copyright and license information we
already have, as much as possible [1]. This site seems to imply that
moving Copyright/Author information around is legal.

William

[1] https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html