From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Stodulka Subject: Re: COPYING tabs vs whitespaces Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 23:11:37 +0100 Message-ID: <56B91299.9060001@redhat.com> References: <56B32BDA.4010909@redhat.com> <56B85ECE.4020607@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0q7rNhGTMfPPXjCdolbKwgGp5CpHJd6Ok" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 08 23:11:55 2016 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 1aSu2E-0001Fk-KU for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:11:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756430AbcBHWLt (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:11:49 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55153 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754115AbcBHWLr (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:11:47 -0500 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB14E804EE; Mon, 8 Feb 2016 22:11:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.34.4.171] (unused-4-171.brq.redhat.com [10.34.4.171]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u18MBjAI030506 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:11:46 -0500 X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.23 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --0q7rNhGTMfPPXjCdolbKwgGp5CpHJd6Ok Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 8.2.2016 18:28, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Petr Stodulka writes: >=20 >> On 4.2.2016 20:15, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> Petr Stodulka writes: >>> >>>> I found that license file COPYING is different as compared with >>>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt If I pass over with >>>> Linus's preamble, change is only about whitespaces - tabs >>>> vs. space. Probably it's minor non-essential change, but some >>>> projects do this change, so rather I ask about that. >>> >>> Interesting. I cannot quite connect "some projects do this change" >>> and "so rather I ask". Are you asking why this project changed it? >> >> Nope. I apologize for my czenglish. It means: From my colleagues I hea= r, >> that some projects had same differences (tabs vs. spaces) in their cop= y >> of the license file and they make it later equivalent with the one in >> gnu.org. >=20 > I'd guess that these projects (among which Linux kernel still has > these indentation the same as the copy we have) and we independently > obtained the COPYING file from GNU in some past, and back then the > copy at GNU was indented that way--which later was changed. >=20 > The Wayback Machine supports this theory. >=20 > https://web.archive.org/web/20070713225446/http://www.gnu.org/licenses/= gpl-2.0.txt >=20 > i.e. the FSF copy back in 2007-07 indented these section headers > with tabs, so those projects that obtained this copy would have > their sections indented with tabs. >=20 > At 703601d6 (Update COPYING with GPLv2 with new FSF address, > 2010-01-15), we did a fresh update directly from the URL you cited > above to primarily replace the addresses of the FSF office. >=20 > https://web.archive.org/web/20100105100239/http://www.gnu.org/licenses/= gpl-2.0.txt >=20 > matches what we use (minus Linus's preamble, of course). >=20 > The file before that change was what Linus copied from Linux kernel > project. The kernel project did their equivalent change at their > b3358a11 ([PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING, 2005-09-10), and > the log message says http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt was used. >=20 > The Wayback Machine agrees. >=20 > https://web.archive.org/web/20050901115237/http://www.gnu.org/licenses/= gpl.txt >=20 > i.e. the FSF copy back in 2005-09 matches what the kernel uses > (again, minus Linus's preamble). I have expected that license was copied correctly in the past from gnu.or= g, when same differences are in various projects. I just point out on anothe= r change. Thank You for tip about web.archive.org - I really don't know about that = web and it can be useful. >=20 >> So I ask rather here / point out this difference, if you know >> about that or you want to have same one. >=20 > So the answers are: >=20 > - No, I didn't personally know about the differences, and I suspect > nobody particularly cared. >=20 > - Not really, unless the difference has more substance. For an > example of an update with substance, the update we did in 2010 > had not just the FSF address change but also updated the fully > spelled name of LGPL from Library to Lesser. Thank You for reponse. >=20 > You may want to bug the kernel folks to update their copy; they > still spell it as Library General Public License. >=20 Everyone can do that. I believe that someone report it already or at leas= t constult it. I write about this here because I should do that. When You know about this difference in license in kernel, I believe that they know= it too and they decide it is ok. 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