Re: [coreboot] GPL license headers

[ron minnich]

Eben Moglen, who ought to know, guided us on the release rules for the Plan
9 GPL release.

Here is what he told us could go in each file:
/*
 * This file is part of the UCB release of Plan 9. It is subject to the
license
 * terms in the LICENSE file found in the top-level directory of this
 * distribution and at http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/files/Plan9License. No
 * part of the UCB release of Plan 9, including this file, may be copied,
 * modified, propagated, or distributed except according to the terms
contained
 * in the LICENSE file.
 */

And, then, to see the file:
https://github.com/Harvey-OS/harvey/blob/master/LICENSE

You really don't need all the text in each file. You don't have to believe
me but you can definitely believe Eben :-)

ron

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:30 AM Patrick Georgi  wrote:
> 2015-10-20 3:42 GMT+02:00 Alex G. :
> > I'd go as far as removing the last two paragraphs completely. The "this
> > comes with no warranty" boilerplate is only binding because it is also
> > included in the GPL proper, not because it's slapped in developers'
> > faces all so often.
>
> Get (the right set of) lawyers to sign off on that.
> So far, there's clearance to get rid of the last paragraph, but
> dropping actual legalese sounds scary.
> Patrick
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