From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Vorel Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 10:14:05 +0200 Subject: [LTP] [RFC] Reduce LICENCE/COPYING files In-Reply-To: References: <3F3FDAE9-7190-4046-9438-17D2BE14FCA0@gmail.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ltp@lists.linux.it Hi all, > Hi! > > Unless there???s a real need for consolidating the LICENSE files, > > I???d leave it well enough alone in the source tree and just aggregate > > all of the licenses as an uber license and distribute it with the > > binary packages. > As far as I can tell the cleanup patch removes 22 identical copies of > GPL v2 sprinkled randomly over the tree and keeps only the top level > one, while each of the individual files still retains a copyright and a > seprarate license. As far as I can tell this is harmless. Patch merged, thanks for your ack! Kind regards, Petr