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Message-ID: <20160317191640.GA32582@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:16:40 -0400 From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> To: Ed Maste <emaste@...ebsd.org> Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: musl licensing On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 02:49:55PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > On 16 March 2016 at 23:19, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote: > > > > What would be the minimal requirement for you not to need to modify > > the files? Full license text? Or would something like having the > > copyright holders named and "licensed under standard MIT license" or > > similar (possibly with a reference of some sort) suffice? > > I think it depends on context. For example, If we planned to import > musl into our contrib/ tree and build it as a standalone entity the > current form (with no individual file statements) would be just fine. > > But in this case, where I hope to combine a few files into our > existing libc I'll want the license text in the file as it's > consistent with the rest of our libc, and it avoids adding a > MIT-LICENSE.txt, MUSL-LICENSE.txt or similar file to the tree. Indeed, I was thinking more along the lines of whether we're to the point that standard licenses could be referenced by name/identifier without an in-tree copy. > > I'm trying to gauge if we should try to make it so you don't need to > > modify the files, or if that's not a practical goal while avoiding > > massive comment-spam in source files. > > I don't think it's a practical goal to entirely avoid needing to > modify files; I had to do so for a minor header variations or some > such anyhow. From my perspective, my order of preference is full > authorship + license, authorship + license statement, status quo. I do > understand wanting to avoid the full license text though. Do other > potential downstream consumers of musl have a preference? I think our community tends to dislike files which are 20+ lines of copyright/license comments followed by <10 lines of code. Whether there are situations where the file size makes a practical difference, I don't know. One observation: on a standard-size terminal it's likely you wouldn't seen _any_ code on the first page with a full-license comment header. Rich
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