Am 17.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > It's not something that any one person can really change. It would > require a very large effort. To give you an idea of the scope, I ran > the following command: > > $ grep GPL *.c hw/*.c | grep -v 'or later' | cut -f1 -d: | sort -u | > while read i; do echo $i; git log --format=" %an <%ae>" $i | sort -u; done
This fires on "or (at your option) any later version" and variations thereof, including line breaks after "or" (e.g., blockdev.c). Also for older files the SVN usernames appear as duplicates. For SVN and CVS commits we'd additionally have to check the commit message for whether the committer received the code from another author. Of the list, 90% seem regular contributors. I didn't say resolving the issue would be possible in a day. Introducing more GPLv2-only code will make it even more work though. Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746, AG Nürnberg
