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>>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> currently, OpenRC has file-based copyright/licensing information. |
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> I would like to centralize all of this information, following the |
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> centralized model described here [1]. |
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> This would mean that, at the top of each file, there would be a |
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> copyright notice stating: |
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> Copyright <years> OpenRC authors |
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> [with the licensing information from the page I am referring to |
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> mentioning the license and a copy of the license at the top level of |
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> the distro] |
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OpenRC is licensed under BSD-2, right? That license is rather short, |
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not much longer than the license notice from [1]. So I wonder if |
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centralising this is worth the effort. (It also adds one level of |
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indirection.) |
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The longest part of BSD-2 is the warranty disclaimer. Not sure if it |
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would be wise to remove this from individual files. Note that e.g. the |
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GPL license notice comes with a "no warranty" paragraph. |
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Ulrich |
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> [1] https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html |
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