On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 01:38:26PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 02:28:25PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 02:02:27PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > > > Quoting GNU maintainer manual: > > > > https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html > > > > > > > > "Alternatively, the ‘(C)’ or C-in-a-circle can be omitted entirely; the > > > > word ‘Copyright’ suffices." > > > > > > The rule which asks for that to be done is: > > > sc_copyright_format: > > > @require='Copyright .*Red 'Hat', Inc\.' \ > > > containing='Copyright .*Red 'Hat \ > > > halt='Red Hat copyright is missing Inc.' \ > > > $(_sc_search_regexp) > > > @prohibit='Copyright [^(].*Red 'Hat \ > > > halt='consistently use (C) in Red Hat copyright' \ > > > $(_sc_search_regexp) > > > @prohibit='\<Red''Hat\>' \ > > > halt='spell Red Hat as two words' \ > > > $(_sc_search_regexp) > > > > > > I don't know if Red Hat legal department insists on the (C) being present. > > > I can reword the commit log to explicit it's only being enforced for Red > > > Hat's > > > copyright, or I can drop the patch. > > > > > > > > It might be specified by Red Hat legal somewhere, but then I wonder why > > there wouldn't be checks for that (in RH builds checks), so it's probably > > unneeded. > > This syntax-check rule isn't about enforcing a legal requirement > but rather ensuring that we use a consist copyright header across > all source files. Do you know why it's not enforced for all copyright lines, but only for Red Hat? It's up to other companies/individual to decide how they want their copyright line to look with respect to (C)/Copyright/... ? Christophe
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