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Re: licensing status for files without notice
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 18:29:12 +0000
- Subject: Re: licensing status for files without notice
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <20180102175609.GA27296@lst.de>
On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> what license are files in glibc under that do not have an explicit
> copyright notice?
We should put a standard LGPL notice on any such files more than ten lines
long. (However, to get the copyright dates for an old file without a
copyright notice it may be necessary to check history.git for when the
file was actually created, because of problems with the coalescing of
commits into subsequent ChangeLog commits in earlier history.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com