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On 15 Dec 2015 09:31, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:05:07AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On 11 Dec 2015 14:16, Patrick McLean wrote: |
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> > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:37:48 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 09:04:47PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > > > > >>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > Well, the OpenRC project is currently inconsistent about this, so the |
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> > > > intention is to make it consistent. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > The .c/.h files have file-scope licenses, but that isn't true for |
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> > > > everything in the project. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > I am willing to make the effort to do this, I was just wondering if |
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> > > > there are any legal pitfalls I need to worry about. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > My theory is I can probably use git to find out who all of the authors |
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> > > > are, and generate an Authors list from that information and from |
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> > > > looking at copyright notices. |
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> > > |
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> > > One concern about this is the possibility of copied code. If OpenRC |
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> > > ever copied code from other BSD licensed projects, then dropping the |
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> > > notice from the top of the file would be a violation of the upstream |
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> > > license. |
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> > |
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> > OpenRC isn't purely Gentoo copyright, so it's already a violation. |
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> > the majority of entries belong to Roy. |
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> I have no idea what you mean by "it's already a violation", and I'm not |
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> sure what Gentoo Copyright has to do with it. |
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your description sounds like you want to run: |
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s/Copyright .*/Copyright OpenRC Authors/ |
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i'm saying you can't do that |
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> Altering Copyright statements to try to claim Gentoo copyright would |
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> definitely be a violation, but that's not what I'm wanting to do. |
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adding multiple entries isn't a problem and in fact could/should be done |
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in most openrc files at this time |
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-mike |