On 12 Jul 2012 at 7:36, Tito wrote: From: Tito <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Copyright message for 1.20.2? Date sent: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:36:43 +0200
> On Thursday 12 July 2012 03:16:32 Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > > >> 630c630 > > >> < "Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Erik Andersen, > > >> Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko\n" --- > > >>> "Copyright (C) 1998-2011 Erik Andersen, > > >>> Rob > > >> Landley, Denys Vlasenko\n" > > > > >> Took a little searching to find which file it was in. I'm > > >> assuming it should be 2012, but there might be a reason it is > > >> changed, or might just be it is to minor of an issue? > > > > We should probably be careful here in that notice to make sure it's > > abundantly accurate. Specifically, it would be better if we were > > clearer about the years. For example, I am quite sure Erik hasn't > > made any contributions in 2012, and maybe not in 2011 either. > > > > It should probably be something like: > > > > "Copyright (C) 1998-<SOME_YEAR> Erik Andersen, > > (C) SOME_YEAR-SOME_YEAR Rob Landley, (C) SOME_YEAR-2012 Denys > > Vlasenko." > > > > The other issue here is whether we should do some sort of "... and > > the rest" thing here to note that lots of other people besides those > > three hold copyright here too. > > > > > > We originally added this notice to make sure that when people > > violate the GPL, that a copyright notice would clearly be in the > > binary and make it more blatant. I still like having it, but I want > > to make sure it's accurate, and I realize making it longer might be > > really annoying due to byte-count. I'm open to ideas here. > > > > HI, > maybe "Copyright (C) 1998-2012 by the Busybox project developers" and > then adding a full list to the source package and to the website could > be a solution. > > Ciao, > Tito Was interested in what all Copyright notices were in busybox, so did this little script? It comes up with over 800 lines originally. The uniq cuts it about in half. It also shows some (c) instead of (C). Also, didn't see many lines with 2012? Sure others would come up with a cleaner script. for a in `find . | grep "\.[ch]"` ; do cat $a | grep Copyright ; done >copyright.out sed -e 's/ \*//g' -e 's_/\* __g' -e 's/ Copy/Copy/g' copyright.out >copyright2.out sort <copyright2.out >copyright3.out uniq copyright3.out >copyright4.out gedit copyright4.out > > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 12516424.592179 | EINSTEIN 8161600.269852 ROSETTA 4724181.818874 | ABC 14121714.221887 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
