Re: [coreboot] licensing text

[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?

John.

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[Paul Menzel]

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

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[ron minnich]

let's do it this way. Why doesn't one of you just propose the wording.

The project was Plan 9, which I doubt many people on this care about :-)

ron