[ipxe-devel] Source file license header clarification

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 02:13:36PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> In the course of the Fedora review for iPXE, it was identified that many
> iPXE source files do not have any license header comment in them. While
> the intent is commonly that any such ommisions imply that the file(s) are
> covered by the terms of the top level COPYING file, the Fedora review
> guides say we should make a recommendation to upstream communities that
> they ensure per-file license headers.
> 
> So this message is just such a friendly hint. To make life easier, I
> wrote a simple perl script to try & identify .h or .c files which have
> got either incomplete or missing license information. By incomplete I
> mean that a file has iPXE's magic FILE_LICENCE macro, but no comment
> header. By missing, I mean it lacks FILE_LICENCE and / or comments.
> 
> IMHO, since iPXE seems to contain a non-trivial number of files that
> have been copied from other compatible open source projects, it is
> wise to ensure every source file has unambiguous license comments.
> 
> I'm attaching the script, which on a GIT checkout it reports the
> following:

And this time with the script actually attached :-)

Daniel
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