From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9634 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl licensing Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:13:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20160316201358.GN9349@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458159275 14573 80.91.229.3 (16 Mar 2016 20:14:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:14:35 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-9647-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Mar 16 21:14:21 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 1agHpk-0001yz-9G for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:14:20 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 15954 invoked by uid 550); 16 Mar 2016 20:14:17 -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 15933 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2016 20:14:17 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9634 Archived-At: A few more general thoughts on this thread: 1. Staying on topic. The topic at hand is not "relicensing" or anything crazy, just figuring out what's not sufficiently clear to Google's lawyers about our current licensing or documentation of copyright status, and whether there are "non-functional" (clarifying) changes that could be made to the source tree that would meet their needs and perhaps also improve the ease with which other users who have to deal with legal deparements can use musl. 2. In-line vs out-of-line copyright/license info. The out-of-line form we have now has some benefits, mainly in avoiding source file clutter, avoiding diff hunks to update copyright years, etc. But it also has disadvantages such as making it easy to forget to update and arguably being hard to interpret. I think this is an area where it would be useful to discuss pros and cons and whether there are in-between solutions that get the best properties of both. Rich