Re: [PATCH 00/27] Add missing copyright information to many files

Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Feb 2020 12:01:42 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Feb  4 22:48, Keith Packard wrote:
> I'm attempting to upload a version of newlib to Debian and have
> discovered many files are missing copyright information. This makes it
> difficult to create an accurate record of information for the package.
> 
> I built a tool to dig through GIT history to automatically associate
> copyright and license information to new files where possible, and to
> assign just copyright information from git author information where
> there was no licensing data in history.
> 
> In a few cases, I went back to pre-git historical versions of the
> repository to figure out the licensing and copyright status.
> 
> With these patches applied, I now have complete copyright information
> for all of the source code built into the library, I'm missing copyrights for
> some documentation and a couple of build scripts.

I'm not sure we really want to go that way.  There was a reason for
creating COPYING.NEWLIB instead, and I have a hard time to make sure
the copyrights you're assigning are really correct.

I pushed [atches 1 and 2 since they are ok, but other than that...

Jeff?  Any input?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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