[coreboot] Long license headers (ANGER WARNING)

[Alex Gagniuc]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:16 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:42 AM Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
>>
>> ron minnich wrote:
>>
>>
>> Every project *does* however get to decide on formal requirements for
>> all contributions, and reject contributions which fail to meet those
>> requirements.
>
>
> And that's an excellent point.
>
>  So, Alex, Paul, Peter, anyone: if you want to craft a "how to create
> license headers" document (is there one?) that we could put at the top
> level, that's great.
>
Well, I was going to edit the wiki to remove the recommendation to use
long headers. It's locked. I refuse to contribute documentation as
long as we lock pages to a select few.

Alex

> When we released Plan 9 under GPL, (github.com/brho/plan9) it boiled down
> to:
> - file in top level of the tree
> - this statement 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.
>  */
>
> That's how Eben Moglen told us it should be done. If anyone knows, he does,
> since he wrote the license and procedures.
>
> ron
>
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