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File header? What do we use, offcially?

Soren Bro
2018-09-14
2018-09-14
  • Soren Bro

    Soren Bro - 2018-09-14

    Do we use the vanilla file header from opensource, or is there a Hermes
    version, with some extra philosophical views on top of the opensource?

    If we demand ownership of our code, we've kinda left the open source
    philosophy. But OK. Then we move to another server and we can do what we
    want.

    But what's the official course here? And being Gentlemen, as I assume you
    all are, you know that we can't use an open source library and claim the
    result as our own.

    Either we're opensource, or we're not. In the last case, we can't build on
    the shoulders of incredibly gifted individuals and groups, but has to
    invent everything from the deep plate and onward. Not very likely.

    Regards.

     
  • Ted Matavka

    Ted Matavka - 2018-09-14

    Let's use an Open Source header. Our modifications will be licenced under the BSD for now. I don't like the GPL, but the BSD licence is just fine. Three-clause, please.

     
  • Ted Matavka

    Ted Matavka - 2018-09-14

    Let's use an Open Source header. Our modifications will be licenced under the BSD for now. I don't like the GPL, but the BSD licence is just fine. Three-clause, please.

     
    • Soren Bro

      Soren Bro - 2018-09-14

      OK, but you agree that all files having a QuallComm header is worth
      replacing with an open source header. Don't take me wrong. All of the
      QaulComm licensed files are worth replacing?

      Regards.

      On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:14 PM Ted Matavka nmatavka@users.sourceforge.net
      wrote:

      Let's use an Open Source header. Our modifications will be licenced under
      the BSD for now. I don't like the GPL, but the BSD licence is just fine.
      Three-clause, please.


      File header? What do we use, offcially?
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      • Ted Matavka

        Ted Matavka - 2018-09-14

        The files should already contain a copy of the BSD licence. If not, feel free to replace the headers with something like Cop't 1991-2005 Qualcomm, 2018 HERMES, use of this software is governed by these terms: [text of three-clause BSD licence here]

        We should leave in credit for Qualcomm---that should keep their lawyers off our toes---just make clear that the software has been worked on since then and that our modifications are OURS.

         
  • Walt Stagner

    Walt Stagner - 2018-09-14

    Excellent idea, Ted. :-)

     

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