I strongly wish to see at least a notice of copyright and terms in each new file, not least because it is the advice of the FSF given in the GPL itself. It avoids doubt about the status of each specific file, and the only costs identified so far are the author's time to insert the notice and a few tens of kB uncompressed text added to the 49 files I identified that are in UBC3 and not in master.
Besides my own preferences, I saw during my earlier license audit that many directories have more than one license on the source files they contain. The rtapi directory, which contains the largest number of new files without license statements, contains at least one GPLv2 file (rtapi_pci.c) and one LGPLv2.1 file (rtapi.h) so the per-directory approach won't work there anyway. Just add a copyright notice to all the files and let's put this to bed. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. Consolidate legacy IT systems to a single system of record for IT 2. Standardize and globalize service processes across IT 3. Implement zero-touch automation to replace manual, redundant tasks http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=51271111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
