File without licence

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 16:08:27 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, ui files; kcfg files... but not
> sure we  can fix it easely.
> 
> So I will start next week to "blame" all people for files without license.

Some of these can be solved with social engineering, for example all the 
threadweaver ones can likely be licensed by just Mirko (at least he'll know if 
they can), that would reduce the amount quite a bit already.

Finding and contacting all the copyrightholders is not an easy feat.
-- 
sebas

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