[Koha-devel] FSF address in copyright notices

[Galen Charlton]

CCing koha-devel, as I had meant to originally. --gmc

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Lars Wirzenius <lars at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>>        * INSTALL.fedora7 -- this has a copyright statement, but no
>>        copyright license information. Is it still relevant? Fedora 7 is
>>        pretty old by now, and no longer support, as far as I can tell.
>>        Do the instructions work for modern versions of Fedora? If not,
>>        can they be updated? If not, the file should probably be
>>        removed. If it is still relevant, or can be made relevant, a
>>        copyright license should be added.
>
> My preference is to update installation documentation, not remove it.
> Any Fedora users about who could run through an installation with the
> current version of Fedora?
>
>>        * t/smolder_smoke_signal -- this is not under the GPL-2, but the
>>        license seems compatible with it, in case that is necessary, so
>>        thist should be OK. I am bringing it up just to make sure it is
>>        actually OK, not just in the happy universe in my head.
>
> License seems OK, but there's an another issue here - is anybody
> willing to volunteer to run a Smolder server for the Koha project?
>
>>        * misc/cronjobs/check-url.pl, misc/cronjobs/cloud-kw.pl -- these
>>        have a copyright license of GPL version 2 only, whereas most of
>>        Koha has version 2 or later. Is this a problem? Can we get the
>>        author to relicense to version 2 or later, to keep it compatible
>>        with the rest of Koha?
>
> Frédéric - can you confirm willingness to update the license of
> check-url.pl to GPL 2+?  Ditto for cloud-kw.pl?
>
>> Another issue I noticed is that few if any files have their copyright
>> statements updated. Many files have copyright timestamps from 8 years
>> ago, for example, but have been modified since. I am not sure if this is
>> important enough to fix, but on the whole it would probably be good to
>> be careful about these things. Fixing ten years of code base for this is
>> going to be a pain, though.
>
> In more ways than one.  I will take this opportunity to ask/remind/beg
> people to not copy-and-paste the "Copyright 2000-2002 Katipo
> Communications" line in new files.  Please use your own (or your
> employer's) copyright statement with a current year.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
> --
> Galen Charlton
> gmcharlt at gmail.com
>



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