Re: copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room rewrite

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Thomas Dickey" <address@hidden>
| To: "Paul Eggert" <address@hidden>
| Cc: "Mathieu Lirzin" <address@hidden>, "Eric Blake" <address@hidden>, 
"bug-autoconf" <address@hidden>, "automake"
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| Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 5:11:43 PM
| Subject: Re: copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room rewrite

| ----- Original Message -----
|| From: "Paul Eggert" <address@hidden>
|| To: "Mathieu Lirzin" <address@hidden>, "Eric Blake" <address@hidden>
|| Cc: address@hidden, "automake" <address@hidden>
|| Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 2:24:32 PM
|| Subject: Re: copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room 
rewrite
| 
|| Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
||> According to ‘git blame’ I appear to not have touch this file, so if you
||> think that I am eligible, I am volunteering on this rewriting task.
|| 
|| Thanks for volunteering. Eric, do you think it would save time overall if you
|| sent him the part of install-sh that you are sure is *not* problematic, i.e.,
|| the part that is already copyright by the FSF? That's typical procedure in a
|| cleanroom rewrite of anything large; dunno if it's overkill here.
| 
| If it was an issue for me, I'd rewrite it.
| 
| fwiw, the copyright was added here -
| 
| 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=ce6c1f203a5052cda0fdf642e9b462950d954a1d

(for 1991).  1994 came in here:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=blobdiff;f=config/install-sh;h=e4f003959e284d64b8cddff996f3248a38edcb6a;hp=36f96f3e033cfaeefc092147d99d92f78e030d12;hb=18ca9ab3ec1a9268c70e1d65644e7db0cac7dab9;hpb=f16c8d206e87a41e74f11da93165e95022cbc9eb

(either way, the copyright date is bogus).

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