From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9676 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl licensing Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:41:32 -0400 Message-ID: <20160318034132.GK21636@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <201603172356.11220.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> <10746.1458256075@CATHET.us> <20160317231923.GA1641@wopr.sciops.net> <98535.1458257508@CATHET.us> <20160318033038.GB1641@wopr.sciops.net> 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 1458272510 30231 80.91.229.3 (18 Mar 2016 03:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 03:41:50 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-9689-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Mar 18 04:41:49 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 1aglIL-0004CN-47 for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 04:41:49 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 18103 invoked by uid 550); 18 Mar 2016 03:41:46 -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 18079 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2016 03:41:46 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160318033038.GB1641@wopr.sciops.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9676 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:30:38PM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: > 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. Generally I don't think people like (and I don't like) URL references to licenses because there's no guarantee that they don't change or linkrot. Referencing the copy in the top-level source tree COPYRIGHT file avoids that but obviously doesn't meet the needs of someone including it in another tree. If Google's lawyers are happy without adding per-file notices (which I haven't seen them asking for in any of the clarifying follow-up emails; correct me if I'm wrong) then I think we should treat this as a separate issue aside from trying to resolve the current license concerns they have, and follow up on it later. Rich