From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: Re: relicensing Sparse Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:39:08 +0300 Message-ID: <20110811103908.GI3777@shale.localdomain> References: <20110810220806.GD3777@shale.localdomain> <20110810230939.GA9423@leaf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com ([209.85.210.42]:42660 "EHLO mail-pz0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755062Ab1HKKlZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:41:25 -0400 Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so3463912pzk.1 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:41:24 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110810230939.GA9423@leaf> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Josh Triplett Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 04:09:39PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:08:06AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > All of you probably know that I've been contacting people to try get > > permission to relicense Sparse to the MIT license. The Transmeta > > code was relicensed some years ago but we needed to collect all > > the copyright holders to do a full relicense. I basically did a git > > blame and if you have over 10 lines of Sparse code, then I sent you > > an email. > > Thank you very much for your continued effort on this. I'd wondered > what still blocked that effort. > > Checking "git blame" doesn't seem sufficient; I think you really want to > contact anyone who has a commit in the git log. Try "git shortlog -se". > Who appears on the latter list and not your list from "git blame"? Most of the people who I missed would have been filtered out anyway by my ten lines of code minimum contribution requirement. Perhaps I should just contact everyone. I looked at how Mozilla did the relicensing and they pretty much went by who had their name in a copyright notice at the top of the file. For files without a copyright notice they looked at the history. So it seems like tiny contributions were ignored. I'm obviously not a lawyer. Contacting everyone is probably doable if that's what you think is best. regards, dan carpenter