File without licence

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Wed Jun 12 21:23:50 UTC 2013


On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 04:08:27 PM Benjamin Port wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 03:52:32 PM David Faure wrote:
> > Le mercredi 12 juin 2013 14:55:07 Benjamin Port a écrit :
> > > some files in staging, tier1 and tier2 have no licence perhaps we can
> > > fix
> > > it.  and then don't move a file if licence is not present.
> > > The good way to fix it, is to git blame then contact all author?
> > 
> > Yes (at least all those who didn't make a "trivial" contribution, such as
> > coding style, removing whitespace, script-based porting, one-liner fixes,
> > etc.)
> > 
> > However for tests it doesn't really matter that much (apps don't use them)
> > and there are a few generated files in your list (lex.c)
> > and a few false positives -- staging/kio/src/core/kdirnotify.h definitely
> > has a license, doesn't it? Maybe it's only missing a Copyright line, is
> > that what you were looking for, rather than licenses?
> 
> According to http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy the copyright
> line is needed.
> And I think is important to have *all* file with a license.
> But there is no license for cmake files,

You mean the CMakeLists.txt ?
Does that really matter ?

The Find-modules etc. all should have licenses.

Alex



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