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. -- Doug Ledford GPG Key ID: 0E572FDD Red Hat, Inc. 100 E. Davie St Raleigh, NC 27601 USA