On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:30:04 PM ron minnich wrote:
Which was motivated by some of your gerrit comments.
I had to turn on html in Kmail to see the paint. Now that I can see the paint...
1. One has to consider that every line this text takes is one less line of code that is visible when opening a file. So, is that the absolute minimum we can get to. I've seen a few projects which use a license identifier tag, along with an explanation in the README as to what that tag means and how to interpret it.
2. There's no longer a place to license under GPLv2 or GPLv2+. It's always a nice touch, and a fun step, to decide whether a certain file you wrote should go under v2 or v2+.
3. Re-licensing everything under v2 will piss a lot of people who like the "+". Some of those v2+ contributions are heavily copied from other v2+ projects (read: allwinner from uboot), and I'm not sure that you can simply strip the "+" from the license of such files, as you're potentially misrepresenting the intent of the author(s).
I regret that it contains a URL, but in these dark times, one must make concessions.
Old text contained both a URL and address. I think this is a step forward.
So, does this work or do people have objections?
I need to keep my reputation as the most annoying guy. Of course I have objections :p.
Alex
Note that if a file ALREADY has notice in it, then we don't change anything. So, in the limit, we can start using this new notice for (e.g.) your stuff and only apply it as we wish.
That said, would you like to take a pass at the wording? Green, maybe :-)
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:41 AM, mrnuke mr.nuke.me@gmail.com wrote: