[16360] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: standardizing copyright/license notice delimiters in MIT source
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Fiveash)
Tue Sep 21 11:20:15 2010
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:20:33 -0500
From: Will Fiveash <will.fiveash@oracle.com>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:13:56AM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 20:07 -0400, Will Fiveash wrote:
> > 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?
>
> In theory at least, the top-level NOTICE file (or README in released
> versions of the code prior to the upcoming 1.9) should have all of the
> licenses collected. We've attempted to keep it up to date as we've
> added code with different licenses.
>
> I'm not saying that as an objection to your proposal, just as something
> that might save you time.
In that past that would have been good enough but I've been told we need
to list the source files along with their associated copyright/license,
hence my proposal.
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Will Fiveash
Oracle
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