On Sun, 2022-04-10 at 23:29 +0200, Francesco Pretto wrote:
> I asked Dominik if he would consider even more
> permissive licenses such as Apache/MIT. I'm waiting for his opinions
> on this on the thread, and I ask you to share your thoughts as well.
Hi,
I reply here, because it's not really related to the relicensing as
such. I had a quick look on the license information in the pdfmm, which
looks like this:
/**
* Copyright (C) 2007 by Dominik Seichter <....>
* Copyright (C) 2020 by Francesco Pretto <....>
*
* Licensed under GNU Library General Public License 2.0 or later.
* Some rights reserved. See COPYING, AUTHORS.
*/
I suggest to use a standard form of the copyright notices, thus any
existing tools can help to aid any discrepancies in this regard. The
SPDX notes are similarly short and easy to decipher. The above would
look like:
/*
* SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2007 Dominik Seichter <....>
* SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2020 Francesco Pretto <....>
* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0-or-later
*/
(note of removed "by" and no '/**' at the beginning - it's because
'/**' can be understood as a documentation comment for tools generating
developer documentation, where these license comments really do not
belong to).
Also, when it comes to it, the sources can be dual-licensed. There are
large/well-known projects doing that.
Just for consideration.
Bye,
zyx
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