From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
To: dwheeler@dwheeler.com
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: Warn if clone lacks LICENSE or COPYING file
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:21:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1426969262.3756.1.camel@kaarsemaker.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1YZNn7-0002Lc-7O@rmm6prod02.runbox.com>
On za, 2015-03-21 at 14:06 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> Warn cloners if there is no LICENSE* or COPYING* file that makes
> the license clear. This is a useful warning, because if there is
> no license somewhere, then local copyright laws (which forbid many uses)
> and terms of service apply - and the cloner may not be expecting that.
Please no, especially not without an option to switch this off. Git is
not only used in open source settings, this would be highly annoying at
$work, where no repo has (or needs) such a file.
--
Dennis Kaarsemaker
www.kaarsemaker.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-21 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-21 18:06 [PATCH] clone: Warn if clone lacks LICENSE or COPYING file David A. Wheeler
2015-03-21 20:21 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker [this message]
2015-03-22 4:20 ` Stefan Beller
2015-03-22 4:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-23 16:46 ` David A. Wheeler
2015-03-23 21:00 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2015-03-22 17:56 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2015-04-03 21:18 ` David A. Wheeler
2015-04-03 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-26 16:56 ` Kevin D
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