From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9675 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kurt H Maier Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl licensing Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:30:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20160318033038.GB1641@wopr.sciops.net> References: <201603172356.11220.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> <10746.1458256075@CATHET.us> <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=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458271856 21459 80.91.229.3 (18 Mar 2016 03:30:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 03:30:56 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-9688-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Mar 18 04:30:55 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 1agl7m-0005YF-Oa for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 04:30:54 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 12131 invoked by uid 550); 18 Mar 2016 03:30:51 -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 12113 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2016 03:30:51 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <98535.1458257508@CATHET.us> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9675 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 05:31:48PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > > 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. > Yes. However, musl has had more than one person express a desire for per-file copyright notifications. None of these people have expressed interest in needlessly including a year. With this information, we can ask if /* Copyright the musl authors. Available under a ___-style license, which can be found at http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/COPYRIGHT */ would meet their needs. Such a notice would minimize the amount of source-control noise, because it would not need to be updated every year. The license in question can even be marked in a way that makes it easy for fossology et al. to automatically classify data. If you put the year in, no useful information is added (that can't also be got from the source control software) but the message will then require maintenance. So, in this specific instance, I focused on the year alone as being unnecessary, because the notification itself may (to some) be desireable for other reasons. I personally don't care if each file holds a notification or not; I'll use musl either way. But if we want to satisfy the most people with the least maintenance load, it might be worth considering. khm