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Re: [RFC] Add missing copyrights
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:22:46 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Add missing copyrights
- References: <20130611133800 dot GA4128 at domone dot kolej dot mff dot cuni dot cz> <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1306111928100 dot 897 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <20130611200107 dot 34B552C058 at topped-with-meat dot com>
On 06/11/2013 04:01 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>>> ./sysdeps/init_array/crtn.S: missing copyright.
>>> ./sysdeps/init_array/crti.S: missing copyright.
>>
>> Use same form of license exception as in other crt[in].S files.
>
> Files containing nothing but comments (which happen to be shorter than the
> license text) really don't need copyright headers.
Would you not agree that when it comes to issues of copyright
and licensing that the rules we apply should have as few
exceptions as possible? Therefore "Add copyright headers to everything"
just seems like a win with no lose? What did I miss?
Cheers,
Carlos.