Am Mittwoch, den 12.02.2014, 10:42 +0000 schrieb John Lewis:
On 12/02/14 07:30, ron minnich wrote:
This note is motivated by mr.nuke.me http://mr.nuke.me's recent CLs with a short-form GPL notice in them. I like that notice but I think it needs a tweak, then we can just use it everywhere.
I just got done relicensing a different project under the GPL. In the process I had to discuss wording and such with Eben Moglen.
Based on his suggestions the other project ended up with a very standard form which I've adapted for coreboot.
In each file, we'd have this to replace the current pile of text.
"This file is part of Coreboot Project. It is subject to the license
Just a couple of minutiae observations. I thought coreboot was supposed to be all lower-case, and shouldn't it read "This file is part of *the* coreboot project" to avoid sounding like you don't have a grasp of English?
I agree. We try very hard to convince people to spell it all lower case so all occurrences in our repository should use that spelling.
As a side note, spelling it all lowercase puts people using that word in other languages in a dilemma. For example in German names are normally spelled with a capital first letter. So in my opinion project names should normally start with a capital letter.
The same is even true for English where you normally start the first word in a sentence with a capital letter.
Not so easy.
Thanks,
Paul