From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [RFC] Reduce LICENCE/COPYING files
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 20:15:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YLpt386rlLDzgfCi@yuki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F3FDAE9-7190-4046-9438-17D2BE14FCA0@gmail.com>
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.
--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-04 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-02 13:00 [LTP] [RFC] Reduce LICENCE/COPYING files Petr Vorel
2021-06-03 11:05 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-06-03 11:57 ` Petr Vorel
2021-06-04 9:13 ` Li Wang
2021-06-04 9:21 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-06-04 9:48 ` Petr Vorel
2021-06-04 17:47 ` Enji Cooper
2021-06-04 18:15 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2021-06-07 8:14 ` Petr Vorel
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