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Re: put appropriate license notices in source files
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: put appropriate license notices in source files |
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Fri, 04 Jun 2021 23:02:36 +0200 |
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Eric Blake wrote:
> Speaking of tools, should we include SPDX tags alongside the full text
> of all our licenses, as that is yet another thing that aids
> license-checking tools?
If there is a GNU policy on this, I would follow it.
Personally I think there is little point to it. SPDX arose in the Linux kernel,
where there is (or has traditionally been at some time) a sloppy attitude
regarding copyright and license headers.
In GNU, the systematic use of a license header in most files alleviates the
problem to a large extent.
Bruno