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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:42:31 -0400
From: Ed Maste <emaste@...ebsd.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl licensing
On 17 March 2016 at 15:16, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
My reservation is that there are tools which scan source trees for
license statements, and they may not parse such a statement.
Also, generally speaking I think a phrase like "the MIT license" is
unambiguous and understood by everyone on this list, but that may not
be true a decade from now.
> 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.
I grew up in the BSD world so I'm used to it -- just jump down a page
after you open a source file :-) I certainly understand the desire to
avoid it though.
>From later in the thread,
> // Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
> // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
> // found in the LICENSE file.
This seems to be a good compromise to me, even though it still needs
special treatment in my case of assembling software using portions of
code from different sources.
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