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Subject: Re: Extending the licensing policy: BSD license for cmake files
From: Shaun Reich <predator106 () gmail ! com>
Date: 2009-09-05 23:26:03
Message-ID: 2165e9910909051626ubf3a28ahdd9919ac3ee53641 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Alex Merry<kde@randomguy3.me.uk> wrote:
> Forwarding to kde-licensing@, which is where this discussion belongs.
>
> On Saturday 05 September 2009 21:22:07 you wrote:
>> On Saturday 05 September 2009, you wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Seems sensible to me. Do we have to put license text at the top of
>> > every CMakeLists.txt file or is there a simpler alternative?
>>
>> I don't know if we have to do something about the CMakeLists.txt, this was
>> primarily for the FindFoo.cmake files.
>> This is what we currently have there:
>>
>> # Copyright (c) 2006, NAME, <email>
>> #
>> # Redistribution and use is allowed according to the terms of the BSD
>> license. # For details see the accompanying COPYING-CMAKE-SCRIPTS file.
>
> The (c) is pointless.
>
> Really, the BSD license should be included wholesale. It's not that long, and
> prevents any ambiguity. See
> http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy#BSD_License for how it
> should look.
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> --
> Why have I got six monitors? Because I haven't got room for eight.
> -- Terry Pratchett
>
In what ways is the copyright pointless? For this choice of license,
choice of source files, or globally pointless? Regular source files
use them, and I do not see why or how that would be pointless.
--
Innumerus Gratiae,
Shaun Reich
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