[16357] in Kerberos_V5_Development
standardizing copyright/license notice delimiters in MIT source files.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Fiveash)
Mon Sep 20 20:08:00 2010
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:07:16 -0500
From: Will Fiveash <will.fiveash@oracle.com>
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I'm working on updating the third party copyright/license notifications
that are part of the Solaris krb packages and I see a number of
copyright/license notices in MIT code that are like:
/*
* lib/krb5/krb/gen_seqnum.c
*
* Copyright 1991 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
* All Rights Reserved.
*
* Export of this software from the United States of America may
* require a specific license from the United States Government.
* It is the responsibility of any person or organization contemplating
* export to obtain such a license before exporting.
*
* WITHIN THAT CONSTRAINT, permission to use, copy, modify, and
* distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and
* without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
* notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and
* this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that
* the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining
* to distribution of the software without specific, written prior
* permission. Furthermore if you modify this software you must label
* your software as modified software and not distribute it in such a
* fashion that it might be confused with the original M.I.T. software.
* M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of
* this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express
* or implied warranty.
*
*
* Routine to automatically generate a starting sequence number.
* We do this by getting a random key and encrypting something with it,
* then taking the output and slicing it up.
*/
The issue I have is that it is difficult to programmatically extract
just the copyright and license text since there is non-copyright/license
text in the same copyright block. This task could be done more reliably
if there were some form of unique start and stop delimiters around the
copyright/license text that could be fed to sed for exaction purposes.
Thoughts?
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Will Fiveash
Oracle
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