----- Original Message ----- | From: "Paul Eggert" <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> | To: "Mathieu Lirzin" <m...@gnu.org>, "Eric Blake" <ebl...@redhat.com> | Cc: bug-autoc...@gnu.org, "automake" <automake@gnu.org> | Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 2:24:32 PM | Subject: Re: copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room rewrite
| Mathieu Lirzin wrote: |> According to ‘git blame’ I appear to not have touch this file, so if you |> think that I am eligible, I am volunteering on this rewriting task. | | Thanks for volunteering. Eric, do you think it would save time overall if you | sent him the part of install-sh that you are sure is *not* problematic, i.e., | the part that is already copyright by the FSF? That's typical procedure in a | cleanroom rewrite of anything large; dunno if it's overkill here. If it was an issue for me, I'd rewrite it. fwiw, the copyright was added here - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=ce6c1f203a5052cda0fdf642e9b462950d954a1d -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
