On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:17:21PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: > >> I'd be fine to reduce it to the minimal license text, but that doesn't > >> free us up from needing to check incoming source to make sure it > >> conforms to the same license. We should really also merge data/COPYING > >> into the core COPYING. > > > > Obviously checking licenses on incoming code is always extremely > > important. :-) > > > > I'm not sure what you're suggesting by reducing it to the minimal > > license, the file only includes one license statement so appears to be > > minimal already; I'm not suggesting copyrights *shouldn't* be present, > > or that any of the existing ones should be removed. AIUI it's required > > to have at least one copyright statement, and seems pretty standard to > > list the major copyright holders (esp. any companies/individuals with a > > legal interest.) The main purpose of COPYING, though, is the licensing, > > to document how the codebase can be shared and reused. > > > > You're probably right that merging data/COPYING and COPYING makes > > sense, but I've seen enough other projects that had subdir-specific > > licensing gunk that I'm not really worried about it. I'd be fine > > either way. > > Yeah, I don't think we're big enough that having separate files makes > much sense. What I'm mostly just stuck with is the copyright > statements: at the moment, we list a few but don't go on to list any > others. I'd suggest an incomplete statement is the worst of both > worlds: should we maybe just list the applicable licenses with a > 'Copyright © 2008-2017 multiple authors' and the license text, with a > note to check the individual files to determine who owns copyright > over which part?
Yes, that seems like a good approach to me. That should address all the points. I probably would avoid the 'multiple authors' phrasing in the individual .c files as probably too ambiguous legally, however I've seen plenty of projects use that in their code. Bryce _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
