[arch-projects] [devtools] License question
Sorry to bother you,
I am seeking clarification on the license of the following files in devtools.git that do not have a copyright/license header (there are other such files, but these are the ones I care about):
- checkpkg - finddeps - find-libdeps - ldd - lib/common.sh
The only files in the repository with license statements are arch-nspawn, makechrootpkg, and mkarchroot; which are all GPLv2 (only); so I have been operating under the assumption that the other files are as well.
However, I would *really* appreciate it if common.sh were licensed as GPLv2+ (with the "at your option, any later version" bit).
I realize that because of having many contributors, possibly without copyright assignment/delegation, this may be a tricky question to answer. Whatever response you can give me would be much appreciated.
Thank you, and happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker
Am 25.03.2014 05:17, schrieb Luke T. Shumaker:
However, I would *really* appreciate it if common.sh were licensed as GPLv2+ (with the "at your option, any later version" bit).
I realize that because of having many contributors, possibly without copyright assignment/delegation, this may be a tricky question to answer. Whatever response you can give me would be much appreciated.
common.sh specifically has 4 contributors.
At Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:06:54 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 25.03.2014 05:17, schrieb Luke T. Shumaker:
However, I would *really* appreciate it if common.sh were licensed as GPLv2+ (with the "at your option, any later version" bit).
I realize that because of having many contributors, possibly without copyright assignment/delegation, this may be a tricky question to answer. Whatever response you can give me would be much appreciated.
common.sh specifically has 4 contributors.
The problem with that is that most of common.sh didn't originate in devtools.git. Pierre got at least the message functions from somewhere else* in his 2011 commit--the commit message sounds like it was just consolidating code from the other files, but it was mostly replacing `echo` and whatnot.
My first guess was makepkg, but makepkg doesn't have stat_{busy,done}, which weren't used by anything in devtools, which makes mes skeptical that Pierre wrote them right then. My next thought was initscripts.git/functions or dbscripts.git/db-functions; but initscripts' stat_* look way different, and dbscripts doesn't have stat_* either.
Thanks, ~ Luke Shumaker
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