From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9664 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed Maste Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl licensing Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:42:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20160316201358.GN9349@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20160316211943.ed54cf246e0020872e15eb6a@frign.de> <20160316203428.GO9349@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20160317031924.GC21636@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20160317191640.GA32582@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458250989 1599 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2016 21:43:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:43:09 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-9677-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Mar 17 22:43:08 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 1agfhD-0008SU-Sd for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:43:07 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 26594 invoked by uid 550); 17 Mar 2016 21:43:05 -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 26570 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2016 21:43:03 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to; bh=DNblE1yoF9oJvYgpec/QWnjUKxQaJ/7ncAYlKWwL1Jg=; b=zu1LqCzOO8wsEMrJr8bUHUkit3/zAGn1gpaNZ6xeUEf5yAB+Qauw86mmpHj5mH4clA vnykMLKmFDmU8edouByIttbt3BrUCsEw0PdBys8M4kELzgQ8nLmYkogiT/62DaU7c5ZP dyLjOpk/MDmf7REJkpHM7E0t9GzKGdexir5satAXubhxJeIYJetaZNnQ9L4K5M9/mViu BgL/hNpuvXcScXdd3+oVSAlljkPCk0FkZCI2owvhHWjFN9z0zL49Q5waRgyHQSQecJA0 4oRZOG9d3AqP9nU+JCGKoKjXbWNktJtOGekEd6aOhcs1Mi4nu+TbYlzh/VSUH8i27ebQ aY6Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=DNblE1yoF9oJvYgpec/QWnjUKxQaJ/7ncAYlKWwL1Jg=; b=Whx8UWeEGR1+LU/0vQd8sgyHNSLGL2DRhAwfN8AGyp2ChcpM0StM8byhxORxggUfnq L4/oj4ZakXCbtOsFD2Jl6Ai6uWPsf4u9alhQuxcY8rdTe11tmx7o7B1JV0aYdyS30pE5 /jzWkQ/QDb44hFi/ZQQyKiUyd5ZCt7sUOUwSawj+ooXXgJdyEWox+QvqoRf3a9McB41c SoPXHsF4hWGP3hAdXLF8bApO/1oD/FTO6kzfK5g0gM15H/mKIJ/loqgpB/cuBbKBjFQA qvmgqd+1ZSUxL6v5UU8zg/zB+UCoHFidqTPJ9H4yqB2EuT54JmdPkGdrFgFlEPsFk4gN e3kg== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJL2n8c7rRS/QeSz+308iyKKJgjBdTweXylChI0U7Xh6BHMpIXq6fNxFTrhTF/zZ8IHB+X911rMt2vwogw== X-Received: by 10.50.132.102 with SMTP id ot6mr36433707igb.97.1458250971510; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:42:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Sender: carpeddiem@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20160317191640.GA32582@brightrain.aerifal.cx> X-Google-Sender-Auth: JGTXy7UgdV3ci0jec7TwmEo0C4I Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9664 Archived-At: On 17 March 2016 at 15:16, Rich Felker wrote: > > Indeed, I was thinking more along the lines of whether we're to the > point that standard licenses could be referenced by name/identifier > without an in-tree copy. My reservation is that there are tools which scan source trees for license statements, and they may not parse such a statement. Also, generally speaking I think a phrase like "the MIT license" is unambiguous and understood by everyone on this list, but that may not be true a decade from now. > I think our community tends to dislike files which are 20+ lines of > copyright/license comments followed by <10 lines of code. Whether > there are situations where the file size makes a practical difference, > I don't know. One observation: on a standard-size terminal it's likely > you wouldn't seen _any_ code on the first page with a full-license > comment header. I grew up in the BSD world so I'm used to it -- just jump down a page after you open a source file :-) I certainly understand the desire to avoid it though. >From later in the thread, > // Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. > // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be > // found in the LICENSE file. This seems to be a good compromise to me, even though it still needs special treatment in my case of assembling software using portions of code from different sources.