[coreboot] licensing text

John Lewis jlewis at johnlewis.ie
Wed Feb 12 11:42:10 CET 2014


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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