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Re: put appropriate license notices in source files
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Eric Blake |
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Re: put appropriate license notices in source files |
Date: |
Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:25:52 -0500 |
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NeoMutt/20210205 |
On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 10:03:04PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> * There are many tools for copyright and license checking [2] and we make
> their job easier by avoiding unclear situations regarding what is
> "nontrivial".
> So, I added copyright and license notices to these files.
>
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html
> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools
Speaking of tools, should we include SPDX tags alongside the full text
of all our licenses, as that is yet another thing that aids
license-checking tools?
https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/appendix-V-using-SPDX-short-identifiers-in-source-files/
However, for clarity, I think it is wrong to rely on SPDX tag only in
place of the full license text; adding the one-liner SPDX should be
just that, an additional line.
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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