Re: uClibc copyright and licence audit
Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've taken over the Debian uclibc package a few months ago, and while
> the technical bits of the package are working fine, the current
> copyright/licencing situation makes it very difficult to upload the
> package into Debian (i.e. my last uploads have been rejected for that
> reason).
>
> The situation is as follows: uclibc has over 2000 source files (~1800
> files ending in .c and .h, plus the build system), with lots of
> different copyright holders and licences. While the situation is not
> hopeless (the vast majority have clear information, and I haven't found too
> many :-) incompatibilities so far), it is nonetheless needed to do a full
> audit.
>
> There are a few "trivial" files consisting of three or four lines of code
> that do not have proper attribution,
FWIW, the policy of FSF projects as well as the Linux kernel is that
code changes with less than 10 lines are in the general case unlikely
to be copyrightable due to their triviality.
It strikes me as acceptable to measure uClibc contributions with a
similiar scale.
Thiemo
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