From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9671 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ruediger Meier Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl licensing Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:46:10 +0100 Message-ID: <201603180046.10409.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> References: <20160317231923.GA1641@wopr.sciops.net> <98535.1458257508@CATHET.us> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458258388 18054 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2016 23:46:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:46:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Anthony J. Bentley" To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-9684-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Mar 18 00:46:28 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 1aghcZ-0007nt-PR for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:46:27 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 10197 invoked by uid 550); 17 Mar 2016 23:46:24 -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 10172 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2016 23:46:24 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 In-Reply-To: <98535.1458257508@CATHET.us> Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:eW+dlYbWLBQbC77wFy3/rx462SvoYQhUSQ2VMeAZCIL4nkzb9h6 UKiNmXHSvu6G/XkEtU5olC38c96fB6K6y0cCXy5yLptA0LXyoTPop40M2IWwB8JlZY1gSw9 yKIFRf2EH1BeO3Q1AjcYGxPBQDJjJq6NNQNWgDfgTPAKuChIzw3UcJk0Dje9u9gNDc7E8+W be+nmXgztKFzWJxzETHVw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:eyl/IvWZ/Bk=:buztZzD2W6YgvarfTarobO 0panrWNQTfs8ggBvfZztCSXh0zCs9ZXLXz3GqcBvLMj2T8qhsBtIJG+jeeupOjDzO8bzd8IF8 TsyfIcJkNWoQeCSGBmE3xqCjfnTr+ltAgen8rVOXnYgJlOYyrRa3s/nFu5QNBB6s7ybEvztiI DBFs6AKAsk21LOidj7mus3S9vgKHHAMEbosMhkusX6mbYiQC+gENuNsWwkq0jgL+6STVvrq7j SWm7CxTKWQ66oh1b2QN28BRaJGjm2V1aJ8cZ6ZYy1HSmeUGP1kOzZavt92up9tAVVtnZelWgl /GfrR7byhdIlcwrPDoQRK+h0qgYc5f6fd5IjUld/3ghUogkJ7FFb2EgMC7f062HJDomvzUNgm tHL2YOiLAEn+3o7HYmJod7J2mNVnm1KLERzlcpb5bL+d3ZGyWVn4EL/jDQrsEVaLt23xnQDl7 XkgcpTUINBGYeopN7peBcCo/kLeQTQYD2Vn2Vq6Pf8BNsIpwQzeRDU/NVjClxDnZl6noY0dX1 IgLC5WT7mnkNFXfytx1gb1uXBJUVXTA891wHJ9zq/13ctzD5bROvUl7r43/XplyL08TBpQzDa 74n5OzTklhR1g7RLm609SMEyOnWl9FU550FJYq4E+u1JRMQMPjntYlXAJvhJi5HRjvdt6Wfzy da9y1WYbaQVj6AaTkcGTmPYs0+u0xIzP9XlAOx/INO4BZgj4dNED4qRUsXW5yR3/vg7uBYald RD29QRbNbn2ji6t9k85gXUqUP3irZzp2pF6cn7r1Y76/bQsEz/2fPEfQeKs= Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9671 Archived-At: On Friday 18 March 2016, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Kurt H Maier writes: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 05:07:55PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > > > The only time copyright years need to be updated in a per-file > > > copyright statement is when the file has had copyrightable > > > changes made. Updating the year in a file that hasn't otherwise > > > changed in that year is spurious (and incorrect, really). > > > > Post-Berne Convention there is no legal requirement to display > > years anywhere. It's just cargo-cult lawyerin'. > > Post-Berne no copyright statement is needed at all. Marking license > terms, authors and dates in individual files is strictly a > convenience factor for those using or reading the code. Convenience factor? It's simply annoying. The gnu people have devoloped a whole machinery to spam these non-sense commits all over any gnu project: $ cd ~/src/coreutils/ $ wc -l `find -name "*copyrig*"` 4 ./.x-update-copyright 274 ./gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright 66 ./gnulib/check-copyright 19 ./gnulib/modules/update-copyright 12 ./gnulib/modules/update-copyright-tests 547 ./gnulib/tests/test-update-copyright.sh 922 total This is one of many many minor points why reading musl sources is much more fun than gnu sources. Please don't give up too many of these minor plus points. cu, Rudi