----- Original Message ----- | From: "Thomas Dickey" <dic...@his.com> | To: "Paul Eggert" <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> | Cc: "Mathieu Lirzin" <m...@gnu.org>, "Eric Blake" <ebl...@redhat.com>, "bug-autoconf" <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>, "automake" | <autom...@gnu.org> | Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 5:11:43 PM | Subject: Re: copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room rewrite
| ----- Original Message ----- || From: "Paul Eggert" <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> || To: "Mathieu Lirzin" <m...@gnu.org>, "Eric Blake" <ebl...@redhat.com> || Cc: bug-autoconf@gnu.org, "automake" <autom...@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 (for 1991). 1994 came in here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=blobdiff;f=config/install-sh;h=e4f003959e284d64b8cddff996f3248a38edcb6a;hp=36f96f3e033cfaeefc092147d99d92f78e030d12;hb=18ca9ab3ec1a9268c70e1d65644e7db0cac7dab9;hpb=f16c8d206e87a41e74f11da93165e95022cbc9eb (either way, the copyright date is bogus). -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
