Re: put appropriate license notices in source files

[Eric Blake]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 10:03:04PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
>   * There are many tools for copyright and license checking [2] and we make
>     their job easier by avoiding unclear situations regarding what is
>     "nontrivial".
> So, I added copyright and license notices to these files.
> 
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html
> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools

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?

https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/appendix-V-using-SPDX-short-identifiers-in-source-files/

However, for clarity, I think it is wrong to rely on SPDX tag only in
place of the full license text; adding the one-liner SPDX should be
just that, an additional line.


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