On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:39:08PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > 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. I don't necessarily think you *have* to successfully contact everyone, but trying seems worthwhile. When the list gets short enough, we can review the remaining contributions and figure out if we need to worry. Nonetheless, I certainly think you've taken the right approach of focusing on the major contributions first. - Josh Triplett -- 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
