From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephan Seitz Subject: Re: [PATCH][1/17] USB virt 2.6 split driver---xenidc platform Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:03:53 +0100 Message-ID: <43823639.7010101@netz-haut.de> References: <1132579119.31295.112.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051121201049.GA22728@granada.merseine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20051121201049.GA22728@granada.merseine.nu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Muli Ben-Yehuda Cc: harry , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Muli Ben-Yehuda schrieb: >>+/* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it */ >>+/* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the */ >>+/* Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your */ >>+/* option) any later version. >> >> >*/ > >Do we really need the GPL in every source file? > > Hi, i'm not in the position to criticise your code here, but from my single point of view, it does make sense to include the GPL or whatever license into every single source file. since every single file _could_ be used in other projects, this makes it very clear to every developer how to handle the 'borrowed' code. at some projects i was always happy to find some GPL'ed or LGPL'ed code with somewhat trivial but timeconsumpting functions e.g. multibyte_aes256_crypt . if you're looking for some special function, there's surely no library for inclusion available :) anyway, a license note in your source files doesn't harm at all. (well, with some editor you might need to push the page down button twice...) greetings Stephan