On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 02:16:30PM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:37:48 -0600 > William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 09:04:47PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > >>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > One concern about this is the possibility of copied code. If OpenRC > ever copied code from other BSD licensed projects, then dropping the > notice from the top of the file would be a violation of the upstream > license.
The only thing I know about immediately that we have copied from an upstream is queue.h, and sure, I wasn't planning on touching that file. The same applies to any other files copied from an upstream that I find, or any functions that I see that are obviously copied. I'm thinking I will be able to detect this by extra copyright notices that are from sources not listed in the log. William
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