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Re: [RFC] Add missing copyrights


On 06/11/2013 07:03 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> Thanks for talking this out. I'm sufficiently convinced that you're
>> probably right, but I'm still worried about missing license headers.
>>
>> The only solution appears to be good old fashioned human review.
> 
> We could try to do something automated to distinguish the generic cases
> from the cases that need the exception text.  That is probably worthwhile
> anyway, since in the past we've had (for years at a time) files that should
> have had exception text but didn't, meaning zillions of users were
> inadvertently committing pedantic LGPL violations though we intended that
> the exact things they were doing be non-violating.  If we had that, then
> something closer to full automation to check/enforce that we put copyright
> headers on everything would be safe from that issue.

Is it sufficient to generate a link map of a template application, parse
the objects that were pulled into the link, then locate those objects
and look at all the sources files that generated them, determining if
their source files have the correct license with exception?

Cheers,
Carlos.


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