Re: License clarification

Jakub Jelen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.opensc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/06/2017 12:11 PM, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> Hi Jakub,
>
> my assumption always was: one clear license statement for the whole
> software is good enough - only divergent files got marked as such.
> For the core files we might have the boilerplate in each file, but I
> felt that was "nice to have", and not essential.

Hello Andreas,
I am no expert on licenses, but there are automatic tools for checking 
the source files (for example in Fedora review tool) to make sure 
nothing "wrong" gets into releases and identify "the divergent files". 
Since I was in this process, I decided to clarify the missing bits so 
other people going through the similar processes will not have to 
struggle with similar problems.

The license are good and you are most probably right with your 
assumption. But having that written directly in the files makes it clean 
as it can be without any dispute.


> All files are good from my perspective, as they are opensc core files,
> only these two could be checked in detail:
>
> src/libopensc/internal-winscard.h
>
> ah, seems this was added in 2008 as part of some build system change?
> ludovic would know what license this would have, if it comes from pcsc.
>
> https://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/api/winscard_8h_source.html
>
> indicates BSD license, but it is better to clarify this with ludovic.
>
> src/common/compat_strlcpy.h
>
> either this file is too trivial to be protected by copyright, or it is
> licensed under the same BSD clause as compat_strlcpy.c. Either way
> opensc is fine.

Thank you for details. I have got already a message from Ludovic so I 
will put that together,

Thanks,
Jakub

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