Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > Damn, it would have been a better joke had I said "9,640 /files/". Ah
> > well, live and learn if you're not careful.
>
> That's very cool. I'll remember that.
>
I'm sweet ;-).
>
> >>>- Script has been made a bit more discerning at the request of Mr.
> >>>Markham, resulting in the new counts for LGPL (none),
> >>>
> >>That's not true. There are at least two. Can you find them?
> >
> > Ah, I can now. And it's more like 70-some. I was looking for "Lesser"
> > and not taking crusty old "Library" into account. Fixed and fixed. But
> > be it 70 or 0, I still call it "negligible".
>
> Actually, only two are straight LGPL - the others are all dually-licensed.
>
WAIT. You've been telling me for weeks if not months here that
LGPL-only code is codex non gratia. NOW you tell me that there's LGPL
files in Mozilla?!?!?! What gives?
> >>Your script will have to be quite smart to catch all the BSD variants.
> >
> > Oh it is Gerv, it is. In fact, it may be the smartest Perl script ever
> > devised. But as far as BSD goes, it just looks for "Regents of the
> > University of California". Will that not catch any and all variants?
>
> Regents of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor? It's not just the
> University of Berkeley, or universities in general, that use the BSD
> license.
>
Ok, I give: how can I do it better? What text is in all BSD licenses?
>
> >>How about the binary macbuild files in macbuild directories?
> >
> > Why would I have mac binaries on my WhyME machine?
>
> The mac binary build files get pulled by everyone. CVS doesn't know what
> your machine architecture is.
If it guessed "non-Mac", it'd be right 95%+ of the time.
> Look for directories called macbuild.
>
Ok, well again, grep -I should take care of that.
>
> >>What about gifs, jpegs, pngs and other assorted binaries with about 20
> >>different file extensions?
> >
> > Here's the binary situation: Any obj's, exe's, and dll's are explicitly
> > excluded. Everything else is left to the auspices of grep's -I option.
> > But it probably wouldn't hurt to explicitly exclude known binary files,
> > again in the interest of speed if nothing else, so I'll add some of that
> > too.
> >
> > That said, any graphics files in there are covered by some sort of
> > license, right? How is that specified?
>
> That's a very good question :-)
>
And the answer is...?
>
> > It'll get more fun the fewer NPLed files show up in my posts. Oh wait,
> > and it'll get even funner than that if I attach the script! Take a look
> > and see what you think. This version incoporates a few of these
> > suggestions, so is not exactly the one which generated the above
> > numbers.
> >
> > But be warned: it's GPLed. Only GPLed.
>
> Don't worry; we won't be incorporating it into Mozilla.
>
Of course not. But seeing as it's entirely self-contained and links to
nothing NPL/MPL/whateverPL, there's no reason you couldn't add it to the
/tools directory along with Mr. Morrison's page loader tests etc.
> Gerv
