On 15 Dec 2015 09:31, William Hubbs wrote: > 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.
your description sounds like you want to run: s/Copyright .*/Copyright OpenRC Authors/ i'm saying you can't do that > Altering Copyright statements to try to claim Gentoo copyright would > definitely be a violation, but that's not what I'm wanting to do. adding multiple entries isn't a problem and in fact could/should be done in most openrc files at this time -mike
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