CCing koha-devel, as I had meant to originally. --gmc On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Galen Charlton <gmcha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Lars Wirzenius <l...@catalyst.net.nz> wrote: >> * INSTALL.fedora7 -- this has a copyright statement, but no >> copyright license information. Is it still relevant? Fedora 7 is >> pretty old by now, and no longer support, as far as I can tell. >> Do the instructions work for modern versions of Fedora? If not, >> can they be updated? If not, the file should probably be >> removed. If it is still relevant, or can be made relevant, a >> copyright license should be added. > > My preference is to update installation documentation, not remove it. > Any Fedora users about who could run through an installation with the > current version of Fedora? > >> * t/smolder_smoke_signal -- this is not under the GPL-2, but the >> license seems compatible with it, in case that is necessary, so >> thist should be OK. I am bringing it up just to make sure it is >> actually OK, not just in the happy universe in my head. > > License seems OK, but there's an another issue here - is anybody > willing to volunteer to run a Smolder server for the Koha project? > >> * misc/cronjobs/check-url.pl, misc/cronjobs/cloud-kw.pl -- these >> have a copyright license of GPL version 2 only, whereas most of >> Koha has version 2 or later. Is this a problem? Can we get the >> author to relicense to version 2 or later, to keep it compatible >> with the rest of Koha? > > Frédéric - can you confirm willingness to update the license of > check-url.pl to GPL 2+? Ditto for cloud-kw.pl? > >> Another issue I noticed is that few if any files have their copyright >> statements updated. Many files have copyright timestamps from 8 years >> ago, for example, but have been modified since. I am not sure if this is >> important enough to fix, but on the whole it would probably be good to >> be careful about these things. Fixing ten years of code base for this is >> going to be a pain, though. > > In more ways than one. I will take this opportunity to ask/remind/beg > people to not copy-and-paste the "Copyright 2000-2002 Katipo > Communications" line in new files. Please use your own (or your > employer's) copyright statement with a current year. > > Regards, > > Galen > -- > Galen Charlton > gmcha...@gmail.com >
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