Re: [PATCH rdma-core] Improve global COPYING files

[Doug Ledford <dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

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On 9/29/16 12:16 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 09:00:53AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> any chance you could simply follow the modern debian copyright file
>> format:
> 
> I was thinking about doing that.. But choose not to for this first
> draft.
> 
> 1) I'd have to go and unwind on a file by file basis exactly what
>    every licnese is. Right now I've just done a survey. There are many
>    copyrightable files with no license text, and many potentially
>    non-copyrightable files with no license text as well. All that
>    needs to be figured out first.
> 
>    I would like to add at least short license headers to every file.
> 2) It seems to require listing the copyright owners for every file,
>    this is a royal pain, IMHO. Many copyrightable files do not have
>    copyright data, so it would have to be mined out of git. I have
>    a script that does that someplace..
> 
> My thinking was to start small, document the survey results (and agree
> my interpetation is sensible), then work on achiveing full copyright
> headers, then use that to build the debian format.
> 
> I'd appreciate help, eg patches moving toward #1 and eliminating the
> free COPYING files and unlicnesed items. I think it will take a bit to
> get there, I still have a bit wack of patches to get applied on other
> topics..

I just merged a pull request of yours, and that was the last outstanding
pull request in the github.  I still have to sort through patches on the
list that aren't in the github interface...but at least 20 or so of your
outstanding patches were taken in today.


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