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Re: [RFC] Add missing copyrights


On 06/11/2013 05:35 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> Do we have a file that contains no license but needs a license that 
>> is not the boiler plate for the project?
> 
> If a file that's empty except for comments needs any license at all,
> then sysdeps/init_array/crt[in].S are such files.

Do we expect many more of these files to be present in glibc?

If we do not, then we've just identified the outliers, and we can
go back to telling everyone that everything should have a boiler
plate license header.

I'm not being flippant here, I'm just trying to make the message
as simple as possible to follow when it comes to copyright and
license issues.
 
>> Such a file would raise the question: What's better, no license or the
>> boiler plate?
> 
> I'd say no license is better.  Otherwise someone trying to respect the
> license in good faith would feel obliged to distribute relinkable object
> files for their program just so it can be relinked against LGPL-licensed
> empty files.

That would have been a real inconvenience for downstream, but is such
a scenario a real problem for the project? It seems like a fail safe
scenario under which our licensing is too restrictive and requires us
to back off from a position of safety?

Cheers,
Carlos.


 


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