From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Beller Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: Warn if clone lacks LICENSE or COPYING file Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:20:31 -0700 Message-ID: <550E430F.9010308@gmail.com> References: <1426969262.3756.1.camel@kaarsemaker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git To: Dennis Kaarsemaker , dwheeler@dwheeler.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 22 05:21:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YZXNv-0001CE-2c for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 05:21:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751377AbbCVEUg (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:20:36 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f178.google.com ([209.85.192.178]:32970 "EHLO mail-pd0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751228AbbCVEUf (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:20:35 -0400 Received: by pdnc3 with SMTP id c3so150480810pdn.0 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:20:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+HPwXmwxeSupY1tJQmSYkJvD5qvkqNG3hMK3pR8QPFA=; b=qW8/d+lXiQXdFL80HRLIid4tw1LosONxpsMOBd5mQ/jgD1XO37yNFNLEFdPKUW8P/G 1Xb84AeSu5eNwHN3aWJx0fJ0yT965DTeIvbyzoIX4Hlm3ZOwkvDN+YmBsGcfJ8+aQsoa 8IiLPJ5/TiONRbYa66RK9w0g4y1Fvukq/XQ0LSeeaDBabdWg5270EQadrM92yGtzlQP4 dexpMrl8dF2PP+2wS3Hy8VHpmG1r2NoFDCfdaassmeX6oef4X6FdfwK0plCwI1yXwV3g HVuB4heHkLvfZordZolNUmsypIf3qxLBj68nfXjhgAqRO63+FSrQyXq8DWcW8zIfZJNz wEyw== X-Received: by 10.70.87.195 with SMTP id ba3mr64425058pdb.126.1426998034947; Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.3] (c-76-102-52-132.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. [76.102.52.132]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id sb4sm3292180pbb.5.2015.03.21.21.20.32 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:20:33 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 In-Reply-To: <1426969262.3756.1.camel@kaarsemaker.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 21.03.2015 13:21, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: > 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. > To spin this further it would be interesting to have a server advertisement during git clone which indicates if this setting is recommended to be set. Then hosting sites popular in the open source world such as github could enable this feature, and the client may enable this for the currently cloned repository (the user may have a global setting set to suppress this message though). At $work the default of not advertising checking for such a feature would be set.