From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29288 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2009 17:49:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 29217 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jan 2009 17:49:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hagrid.ecoscentric.com (HELO mail.ecoscentric.com) (212.13.207.197) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:49:10 +0000 Received: from localhost (hagrid.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ecoscentric.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7BC3B4003B; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:49:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ecoscentric.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hagrid.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oXlbHllahhdN; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:49:02 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4981EC0D.2050305@eCosCentric.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:49:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCos Maintainers , eCos discussion Subject: Repository copyrights updated OpenPGP: id=A5FB74E6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00030.txt.bz2 As promised, I have now (finally!) finished updating the copyrights on all files. Please let me know about any problems or anomalies. I've looked over lots of it, but can't guarantee to have found everything. To the maintainers: the trunk is still temporarily frozen until Bart completes his changes. Some things of note: 1) your next 'cvs update' will take forever. There are 22MBytes of changes, with essentially every file changed. It may well be faster to start with a new checkout (i.e. 'cvs co' to a new direcotry) if you haven't any local changes. 2) I have slightly clarified the licence text, e.g. the BSDLICENCE previously said: // Portions of this software may have been derived from OpenBSD or other // sources, and are covered by the appropriate copyright disclaimers // included herein. and now says e.g.: // ------------------------------------------- // This file is part of eCos, the Embedded Configurable Operating System. // // Portions of this software may have been derived from FreeBSD // or other sources, and if so are covered by the appropriate copyright // and license included herein. // // Portions created by the Free Software Foundation are // Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. (note that the net stack mentioned has been worked out appropriately). I have also improved formatting including line lengths in some cases. The FSF address has changed too. 3) Distinct licence blocks are better marked with an appropriate fooCOPYRIGHTBEGIN marker. Maintainers and contributors: please ensure consistency with existing formats. Do not make up your own. Anything between COPYRIGHTBEGIN/COPYRIGHTEND markers is allowed to be replaced in future. Just like they were now. 4) ChangeLogs are now GPL'd. The eCos exception made no sense. 5) I have updated the RedBoot version string to comply with section 2(c) of the GPL. 6) I have _not_ done anything to make the copyright years more accurate. This was a can of worms. The copyright years are the same as before (but now FSF). In future all contributions must make sure that they contain correct copyright years. Modifications to existing files must update the copyright year with the current year. Contributors should make sure they do this in any submitted patch. Maintainers, please get into the habit of checking that whenever you check in a file, you check whether the copyright year of all modified files includes the current year. 7) There are a vast number of other licence related fixes in individual files. I daren't count the number of special cases there have been, but there's a lot. Again in future, please be consistent with existing formatting. There are no prizes for doing your own thing. After the trunk is unfrozen, there will be a short time to commit anything important, and then I will cut a branch for the eCos 3.0 release and then I will create a first release candidate - there will probably/hopefully only be one. Jifl -- eCosCentric Limited http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos experts Barnwell House, Barnwell Drive, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 1223 245571 Registered in England and Wales: Reg No 4422071. ------["Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere"]------ Opinions==mine