On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 04:09:39PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:08:06AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > All of you probably know that I've been contacting people to try get > > permission to relicense Sparse to the MIT license. The Transmeta > > code was relicensed some years ago but we needed to collect all > > the copyright holders to do a full relicense. I basically did a git > > blame and if you have over 10 lines of Sparse code, then I sent you > > an email. > > Thank you very much for your continued effort on this. I'd wondered > what still blocked that effort. > > Checking "git blame" doesn't seem sufficient; I think you really want to > contact anyone who has a commit in the git log. Try "git shortlog -se". > Who appears on the latter list and not your list from "git blame"? Most of the people who I missed would have been filtered out anyway by my ten lines of code minimum contribution requirement. Perhaps I should just contact everyone. I looked at how Mozilla did the relicensing and they pretty much went by who had their name in a copyright notice at the top of the file. For files without a copyright notice they looked at the history. So it seems like tiny contributions were ignored. I'm obviously not a lawyer. Contacting everyone is probably doable if that's what you think is best. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
