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From: FRIGN <dev@frign.de>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl licensing
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:19:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160316211943.ed54cf246e0020872e15eb6a@frign.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160316201358.GN9349@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:13:58 -0400
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:

Hey Rich,

> 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.

I think the biggest concern on behalf of Google is the code licensed
under public domain. There needs to be a decision for that.

> 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.

As I promoted in my previous mails, I favor an out-of-line
copyright/license info with a small one-line remark in each
source file. This actually makes it easy to update years (only necessary
in the COPYRIGHT file) and makes it easier for people to find out what
license code is under.

Cheers

FRIGN

-- 
FRIGN <dev@frign.de>


  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-16 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-15 21:59 Petr Hosek
2016-03-15 22:17 ` croco
2016-03-16 16:32   ` Alexander Cherepanov
2016-03-16 22:50     ` Petr Hosek
2016-03-16 22:55       ` Josiah Worcester
2016-03-16 23:46       ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17  2:06         ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17  3:04           ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17  8:17           ` u-uy74
2016-03-17 15:14             ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17 15:28               ` FRIGN
2016-03-17 15:49                 ` Hugues Bruant
2016-03-17 15:57                   ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 16:01               ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 23:32                 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-18  4:21                   ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18  4:47                     ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-18 18:07                       ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18 18:16                     ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-18 19:12                       ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18 19:47                         ` George Kulakowski
2016-03-19  4:35                           ` Rich Felker
2016-03-21 22:46                             ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-23  2:32                               ` Rich Felker
2016-03-23 20:35                                 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-23 22:53                                   ` Rob Landley
2016-03-29 17:18                                     ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-29 17:21                                   ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-29 20:03                                     ` Rich Felker
2016-03-29 20:21                                       ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-30  6:56                                     ` u-uy74
2016-03-30 14:11                                       ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-30 14:43                                         ` u-uy74
2016-03-18  8:31               ` u-uy74
2016-03-17  1:26       ` Alexander Cherepanov
2016-03-17  2:20         ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-15 22:20 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-03-15 22:20 ` Josiah Worcester
2016-03-15 22:41 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-15 22:49   ` Shiz
2016-03-16  4:54   ` Isaac Dunham
2016-03-16  8:00   ` u-uy74
2016-03-16 10:31   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-16 10:55     ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 12:34       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-16 12:46         ` Anthony J. Bentley
2016-03-16 13:49           ` u-uy74
2016-03-16 14:07             ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 14:01         ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 14:47           ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-16 10:22 ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 20:13 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-16 20:19   ` FRIGN [this message]
2016-03-16 20:34     ` Rich Felker
2016-03-16 21:11       ` Jens Gustedt
2016-03-16 21:15       ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 21:35         ` Rich Felker
2016-03-16 21:50           ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 21:34       ` John Levine
2016-03-16 21:38       ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17  2:01       ` Ed Maste
2016-03-17  3:19         ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 18:49           ` Ed Maste
2016-03-17 19:16             ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 21:16               ` Wink Saville
2016-03-17 21:25                 ` Petr Hosek
2016-03-17 22:56                   ` Ruediger Meier
2016-03-17 23:07                     ` Anthony J. Bentley
2016-03-17 23:19                       ` Kurt H Maier
2016-03-17 23:31                         ` Anthony J. Bentley
2016-03-17 23:46                           ` Ruediger Meier
2016-03-18  3:30                           ` Kurt H Maier
2016-03-18  3:41                             ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18  3:55                               ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17 21:42               ` Ed Maste
2016-03-17 23:37               ` Luca Barbato
2016-03-18  8:01             ` u-uy74
2016-03-18 12:35 ` chromium with musl libc (was: [musl] musl licensing) Natanael Copa

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