[Libguestfs] [libvirt] [test-API 2/3] Add the better copyright statements in scripts

Osier Yang jyang at redhat.com
Tue Apr 17 12:37:09 UTC 2012


On 2012年04月17日 19:41, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 07:22:48PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
>> [ CC to Rich ]
>>
>> On 2012年04月17日 19:18, Osier Yang wrote:
>>> On 2012年04月17日 19:13, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 07:09:36PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
>>>>> On 2012年04月17日 19:04, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 06:59:24PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
>>>>>>> The new copyright statements is:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <copyright>
>>>>>>> Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Red Hat, Inc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> libvirt-test-API 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 program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>>>>>>> but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranties of
>>>>>>> TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
>>>>>>> PURPOSE.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>>>>>>> along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>>>>>>> Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
>>>>>>> </copyright>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm fairly sure that address is outdated - everywhere in libvirt
>>>>>> code uses
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
>>>>>> * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
>>>>>> * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
>>>>>> 02111-1307 USA
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the reminding, will post a v2, then think we need to
>>>>> update the address in libvirt codes too?
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, I wonder if we are better off just removing the address
>>>> completely. There are no end of bug reports in Fedora reviews
>>>> about outdated addresses and the FSF have moved locations
>>>> multiple times. I see GNULIB now just writes:
>>>>
>>>> * 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/>.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I found this when checking the GNU website mins ago. Yeah, it's better
>>> , per they moves from time to time, ;-)
>>>
>>
>> @Rich, I had to say: I copied the last 3 sentences (the address part)
>> from libguestfs. Perhaps it needs the updating too.
>
> They've moved again?!
>
> We are currently using:
>
> Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
> Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
>
> and went through a big process of fixing every file to use this
> address a little while back.
>
>    commit 04ea1375c55aa67df4e7fc61dbb534111767f3b6
>    Author: Matthew Booth<mbooth at redhat.com>
>    Date:   Tue Nov 8 14:27:49 2011 +0000
>
>        Update FSF address.
>
> Rich.
>

Ah, my libguestfs repo is *too* old, :-)

Osier




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