Hello James, On Thu, 2016-07-28 at 13:26 -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2016-07-28 at 22:23 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > Thanks Xose, for digging this information. But shouldn't this > > information go into respective source files? > > If there's a COPYING file, there's no need for individual files to have > a copyright. The licence of the file defaults to whatever COPYING (or > LICENCE or some recognizable top level file says). A significant > number of Linux Kernel files don't have individual file header copyrigh > ts, if you want an example of this. Yes. But as I understand, the entire Linux [1] code base is GPLv2 only. Whereas in case of multipath-tools, as Xose mentioned in the previous email, it is a mix of: * GPLv2 (only?) * GPLv2+ * LGPLv2 Having this information in the source repository (not necessarily as individual source headers) will speak out much clear. I think something like Debian's Machine-readable copyright format will be a good fit in this case. https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ An example project, with mixed licenses: http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/libs/libstoragemgmt/unstab le_copyright BTW, this topic hit my mind 2 days ago when I looked at the aging (old format) multipath-tools/debian/copyright in my packaging repo and wanted to fix it. http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/m/multipath-tools/unstable _copyright I have attached a patch for a copyright file, based on what Xose had mentioned in the email. There still are files, like libmultipath/prioritizers/alua.c, which mention the license as plain GPL. So, this patch is still not complete. [1] with some minor exceptions I just noticed. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
From a148c6de8b558858e3210c973574859954ad2e63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:03:27 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Add initial licensing/copyright file Signed-off-by: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@xxxxxxxxxx> --- copyright | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+) create mode 100644 copyright diff --git a/copyright b/copyright new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0758ab0 --- /dev/null +++ b/copyright @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ +Upstream-Name: multipath-tools +Upstream-Contact: Multipath Tools Project (dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx) +Source: https://http://git.opensvc.com/?p=multipath-tools/.git;a=summary + +Files: * +License: LGPL-2.1+ + +Files: kpartx/ + multipath/main.c + libmultipath/checkers/cciss_tur.c + libmultipath/memory.c + libmultipath/memory.h + libmultipath/parser.c + libmultipath/parser.h + libmultipath/vector.c + libmultipath/vector.h + libmultipath/version.h + libmultipath/file.c + libmultipath/alias.c +License: GPL-2+ + +Files: libmulitpath/uevent.c + libmultipath/sysfs.c + libmultipath/prioritizers/ontap.c +License: GPL-2 + + +License: GPL-2+ + This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or + (at your option) any later version. + . + This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + GNU General Public License for more details. + . + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> + . + On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General + Public License version 2 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2". + + +License: LGPL-2.1+ + This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or + (at your option) any later version. + . + This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. + . + You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License + along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> + . + On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General + Public License version 2 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1". + -- 2.8.1
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