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

[William Hubbs]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 02:16:30PM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:37:48 -0600
> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> 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.

The only thing I know about immediately that we have copied from an
upstream is queue.h, and sure, I wasn't planning on touching that file.
The same applies to any other files copied from an upstream that I find,
or any functions that I see that are obviously copied. I'm thinking I
will be able to detect this by extra copyright notices that are from
sources not listed in the log.

William