Re: [Libusb-devel] Licensing Headers

[Peter S. <pe...@st...>]

Garret Kelly wrote:
> > What headers are those?
> 
> Headers declaring the copyright and licensing terms of the file,

The licensing terms are the same for all of the codebase. Copyright
is much more arbitrary. Can you say more about your requirements?


> in this case the file's participation in the LGPL. They appear throughout
> .c and .h files for libusb, for example in libusb/os/threads_posix.c:
> 
> /*
>  * libusb synchronization using POSIX Threads
>  *
>  * Copyright (C) 2010 Peter Stuge <pe...@st...>
>  *
>  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>  * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>  * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>  *
>  * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
>  * Lesser General Public License for more details.
>  *
>  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
>  * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
>  * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
>  */

For version.h this is actually technically impossible, since the file
contents is read and processed by configure.ac.


//Peter