How to add missing copyright and license headers to sources?
mETz <[email protected]>
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Moin, I'm currently cleaning up Noatun sources (to be found in kdemultimedia/noatun) and ran into the problem that almost all files miss a license and/or copyright header. There's kdemultimedia/noatun/COPYING which states that everything should be under BSD license if not stated in the source file. Now I have the following questions: - Is it ok to add the BSD license text from http://developer.kde.org/policies/licensepolicy.html to all source files that lack a license header and remove the COPYING file (IIRC license files should not be scattered around kde svn) - Whom to add as copyright holders? I wasted my whole last night to find previous authors for a file including their full name and email and then I manually picked the ones that did major work on a file and added them with their respective commit timeframe. Later I was told on IRC that adding copyright for persons other than me is probably not a good idea (read: wrong) slighly less important: - How safe is the BSD license if you're just coding for fun and don't want to get sued in case you run into a copyright or patent issue by pure accident (i.e. you didn't know before that you infrige a patent or read something that has a restrictive copyright)? Bye, Stefan aka mETz PS: Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to kde-licensing, thanks _______________________________________________ Kde-licensing mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-licensing
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