On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 09:04:47PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, William Hubbs wrote: > > > currently, OpenRC has file-based copyright/licensing information. > > I would like to centralize all of this information, following the > > centralized model described here [1]. > > > This would mean that, at the top of each file, there would be a > > copyright notice stating: > > > Copyright <years> OpenRC authors > > > [with the licensing information from the page I am referring to > > mentioning the license and a copy of the license at the top level of > > the distro] > > OpenRC is licensed under BSD-2, right? That license is rather short, > not much longer than the license notice from [1]. So I wonder if > centralising this is worth the effort. (It also adds one level of > indirection.)
Well, the OpenRC project is currently inconsistent about this, so the intention is to make it consistent. The .c/.h files have file-scope licenses, but that isn't true for everything in the project. I am willing to make the effort to do this, I was just wondering if there are any legal pitfalls I need to worry about. My theory is I can probably use git to find out who all of the authors are, and generate an Authors list from that information and from looking at copyright notices. William
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