From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: newlib@sourceware.org
Cc: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/27] Add missing copyright information to many files
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200206110142.GQ3403@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200205064844.929131-1-keithp@keithp.com>
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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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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-05 6:48 Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:48 ` [PATCH 02/27] Typo in license for newlib/libc/stdio/flags.c Keith Packard
2020-02-06 10:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-02-05 6:48 ` [PATCH 01/27] Typo in license terms for newlib/libm/common/log2.c Keith Packard
2020-02-06 10:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-02-05 6:48 ` [PATCH 06/27] Add copyrights in newlib/libc/iconv/lib Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 23/27] Add missing copyrights to newlib/libm/machine/i386 Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 26/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/doc Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 13/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libc/signal Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 16/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libc/stdio64 Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 05/27] Add Copyright where missing to newlib/libc/include files Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 18/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libc/string Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 08/27] Add missing copyrights for newlib/libc/locale Keith Packard
2020-02-06 10:58 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 25/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/testsuite Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 24/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libm/math Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 12/27] Add missing copyrights to newlib/libc/search Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 20/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libm/common Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 27/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libm/machine/i386 Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 03/27] Add copyright and license to newlib/libm/test/*.c Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 04/27] Add copyright attribution for files in newlib/libc/ctype Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 09/27] Add missing copyrights to newlib/libc/machine Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 15/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libc/stdio Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:49 ` [PATCH 21/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libm/complex Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:54 ` [PATCH 11/27] Add missing copyrights to newlib/libc/reent Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:54 ` [PATCH 07/27] Transfer copyright from locale.c to derived files Keith Packard
2020-02-06 10:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-02-05 6:59 ` [PATCH 22/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libm/machine/spu Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:59 ` [PATCH 10/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libc/misc Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:59 ` [PATCH 17/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libc/stdlib Keith Packard
2020-02-05 6:59 ` [PATCH 14/27] Add missing copyrights in newlib/libc/ssp Keith Packard
2020-02-05 7:09 ` [PATCH 19/27] Add missing copyright information to newlib/libc/time Keith Packard
2020-02-06 11:01 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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