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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: CMake source files without license
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2020-06-24 16:50:20
Message-ID: 2147737.IkzDdQDL7F () xps
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El dimecres, 24 de juny de 2020, a les 15:23:31 CEST, Harald Sitter va escriure:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:27 PM Elvis Angelaccio
> <elvis.angelaccio@kde.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering, is there a reason why our CMakeLists.txt files often do
> > not contain a license?
> 
> The majority are probably trivial works that nobody can really claim
> copyright on and to that end cannot extend a license either.
> 
> > Shouldn't they have one? Or at least the CMakeLists.txt files that are
> > "big" enough?
> 
> That is of course the trouble. When does a cmakelists file become a
> copyrightable work that needs a license to be made free?
> 
> With that in mind perhaps we should simply make it a matter of policy
> that all new cmakelists should be equipped with spdx tags? Always,
> even if they only contain a single line. 

+1 a 
  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
sounds like a great idea for default default CMakeLists.txt header

Cheers,
  Albert

> If all files have a license
> specified we at least can't forget to add one later and everyone is on
> the same page about the license, should (part of) a cmakelists become
> a Finder or otherwise derived work later.
> For existing files one could opt to explicitly license them as needed.
> The unfortunate thing there is that at least for moral reasons one
> needs to ask all prior authors for consent, and that's a fair amount
> of work.
> 
> HS
> 




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