From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9625 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: FRIGN Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl licensing Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:55:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20160316115527.335b1a45adadb1a8af6244c5@frign.de> References: <20160315224126.GA5402@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20160316103125.GB9862@port70.net> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458125746 26121 80.91.229.3 (16 Mar 2016 10:55:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:55:46 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-9638-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Mar 16 11:55:44 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ag978-0001A2-5s for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:55:42 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 7493 invoked by uid 550); 16 Mar 2016 10:55:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 7466 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2016 10:55:39 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1458125728; l=1310; s=domk; d=frign.de; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Mime-Version:References: In-Reply-To:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=kOwC/yLiJPsBp6sxxH09WSN28MvQnMvcjwzS+0hzJAQ=; b=qFJcaTNo5G+dvxKzNdK/ZfYu9H1g7O/9Q8wmicgZRbJsER/Oqo7WQFMb1vI5J+tvlJp Qv9kMmRSp2DIBOtQ0DgP+A1Jrcbrdma33NM+rCS1IAKs6w5GYgu+wZjt1ACwZChDpRDIQ QxYKsh5GH/rtenAQcSj8spaBYazE23HYTng= X-RZG-AUTH: :KGkSVUa6cvg6QHOypuT/F//XhghIqIrrftbI6xdAzo0GYm6y2943wg== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 In-Reply-To: <20160316103125.GB9862@port70.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.2 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9625 Archived-At: On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:31:25 +0100 Szabolcs Nagy wrote: Hey Szabolcs, > there should be a way to document copyright without changing > source files. if google has some best practice for that we > can follow it i think. (one line comment is ok, but i'd prefer > no license related text in source files.) One line never hurts. It would also be convenient for new contributors, because adding this one line automatically implies they want to be in the central "LICENSE". This would actually favor homogenization of licensing, which would make life much easier for everybody. /* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */ > bionic actually generates its kernel interface headers from (gpl) code > and each file has the comment: > (...) > so it is ok to claim 'not copyrightable', we just have to find a way > to do this without cluttering each header file. I don't think we can apply this argument here. Also, there's no reason not to just use ISC or BSD-0. A central LICENSE file would also make it easier to see which people contributed. Using git signs or other version control means would remove all this valuable information if you for instance just downloaded the tarball, which is unacceptable. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN