On 01/02/2014 05:38 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> a bad copyright line slipped into coreutils.git during the SELinux commits:
>
> $ make update-copyright
> GEN update-copyright
> src/selinux.c: warning: copyright statement not found
> src/selinux.h: warning: copyright statement not found
>
> These sources should not be copyrighted to Red Hat:
>
> for f in src/selinux.{c,h} ; do head -n 2 $f | tail -n1 ; done
> Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
> Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
>
> I wonder why we don't have a syntax-check rule for this yet ...
>
> I'm not good in such law things, so I would assume you as
> the author are the only one who could re-license it by sending
> us a patch with with the correct line like ...
>
> - Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
> + Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright is assigned to the FSF for all of coreutils,
so we should change this as per the patch above.
thanks,
Pádraig
