Authors, maintainers and licenses in apidox

[Alex Merry]

On 22/01/14 17:46, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:27:29PM +0000, Alex Merry wrote:
>> I would be tempted to ditch the current LICENSE files (all three of
>> them), and add (summary) license info to README.md, as
> 
> The COPYING{.LIB,.DOC} files can't go away as there must be a full
> copy of the licence text included with any code under that licence.
> Else it's too easy to claim you weren't sure what the full licence
> was.  Many distributions would have trouble distributing it without
> the full copy of the licences.

I absolutely agree that COPYING (GPL) and COPYING.LIB (LGPL) (and I
guess COPYING.DOC is the GNU fdl text?) files have to stay.  I even said
as much in part of the email that you didn't quote :-)

The LICENSE files are in repos that don't have a GNU license, but are
instead BSD.  They essentially say "this code is BSD" or whatever, and
include a copy of the license text that already is (or should be) at the
top of the relevant files.

Likewise, the COPYING-CMAKE-FILES contains text that is supposed to be
at the top of the relevant cmake files (the BSD license text doesn't
make sense without the attached copyright notices).

Alex