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Re: licensing status for files without notice


On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Florian Weimer wrote:

> On 01/02/2018 07:29 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > 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.)
> 
> I think the ChangeLog files themselves are sufficiently accurate to determine
> the year of the change.

Yes, if the addition of such a file is mentioned in a ChangeLog, that can 
be used to determine the start year for the copyright range.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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