Re: [Jfs4bsd-devel] Re: [jfs4bsd] cvs commit: j4b/src/sys/gnu/jfs jfsmount.h,1.6,1.7

[Greg 'g. L. <gr...@Fr...>]

On Friday, 21 June 2002 at 19:18:06 -0700, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <gr...@Fr...> wrote:
>> On Friday, 21 June 2002 at 11:27:41 -0700, h_p...@so... wrote:
>>> Log Message:
>>> Update the license to GPL.  It is better to stay on one license
>>> throughout the codebase, rather than mix n' matching BSD and GPL
>>> licenses, thus providing sense of uniformity.
>>
>> Thanks.  You appear to have missed the point, though: the issue here
>> is not uniformity of the code, but that this is IBM code which was
>> released under the GPL.
>
> I understand what you mean.  struct jfsmount was my creation so I have my
> copyright on it, although,  I have a nice suggestion, each newly created
> file should have the copyright of the owner and IBM on it, due to the use
> of its data structures, yada yada yada.. :)
>
> Example:
>
>   /*-
>    * Copyright (c) 2002 <authorname> [<authoremail>]
>    * Copyright (c) Internation Business Machines (IBM) Corporation 2000
>    *
>    * <begin GPL license here>
>    * <if code from OS/2 codebase, then add the SCCS id carried by it>
>    * $Id$
>    */
>
> Let me know if this is right Greg.  This will make sure that no IBM law or
> copyright has been violated by the use of its creations, right?

Yes, I don't see any problem with that.

Greg
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