Re: Review of license/copyright-info

I fixed almost all of these -- in a few cases I don't know the full
name of the original authors so I left the copyright in my name.  In
my opinion that is a valid solution up until the original author
notifies me of their full name.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Michael Tautschnig <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Logwatch-Developers,
>
> I've just completed a review of all scripts in CVS related to the
> copyright-issues brought up by Willi.
>
> First of all, Kirk, thank you for adding license/copyright information to each
> of the files. There are, however, some inconsistences with the information found
> in the CVS logs and the files themselves. In detail, these are:
>
> scripts/services/
>  - files with wrong copyright, but including proper author info (could be fixed
>    by looking to the files and adding addition Copyright (C) lines):
>    barracuda, bfd, cisco, clam-update, clamav, clamav-milter, denyhosts,
>    dovecot, dpkg, emerge, evtapplication, evtsecurity, evtsystem, exim,
>    eximstats, extreme-networks, fail2ban, imapd, in.qpopper, ipop3d,
>    mailscanner, netopia, netscreen, oidentd, openvpn, pix, pluto, pop3,
>    portsentry, postfix, pound, proftpd-messages, pureftpd, qmail-pop3d,
>    qmail-pop3ds, qmail-send, qmail-smtpd, rt314, saslauthd, scsi, shaperd,
>    slon, sonicwall, shdd2, tac_acc, up2date, vpopmail, windows, xntpd,
>    zz-network, zz-sys
>
>  - missing license info:
>    spamassassin, courier
>
>  - http: copyright should be Michael Romeo <[email protected]>
>  - raid: copyright should be Anders Blomdell <[email protected]>
>  - sendmail-largeboxes: copyright should be Colin Smith <[email protected]>
>  - smartd: copyright should be Jac? Botha <[email protected]>
>  - yum: copyright should be Sy Beamont <[email protected]>
>
> scripts/shared/
>  - files with wrong copyright, but including proper author info (could be fixed
>    by looking to the files and adding addition Copyright (C) lines):
>    applyeurodate, applytaidate, eventlogonlyservice, eventlogremoveservice,
>    hosthash, onlyhost
>
>  - applyhttpdate: copyright should be Michael Romeo <[email protected]>
>  - applyusdate: copyright should be Sy Beamont <[email protected]>
>
> In my opinion, missing license headers and those missing the author info
> completely should be fixed first. These are not as many, so that should be
> doable. Concerning all the files where copyright-info and author-statements
> _inside_ the scripts do not match: These should really be fixed as well, but
> that probably requires looking into each of them and fixing as necessary; I
> don't see any chance for a scripted operation here.
>
> I would be nice to see this fixed, and logwatch release, some time in July to
> get this into Debian/lenny for the next stable release of Debian.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Michael
>
>
>
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