Neil Williams wrote: > Copyright issues: > 1. The machine-interpretable copyright format is meant to be > hierarchical - Files: * should not appear before any other more specific > matches. i.e. exclude all the awkward files explicitly in turn, then the > last stanza is "everything else". That's not quite incorrect. Quoting the page: | Matches should be exclusive (a file can only match one rule). The final rule | that should be considered is the most specific one (the one that matches the | fewer files), or if this is ambiguous, the last one in the file. | | Thus, in this case of getopt.c, it is the second rule that has to be taken | into account: | | Files: * | Copyright: [the main work’s author] | License: [the main work’s license] | Files: getopt.* | Copyright: © 2000 the NetBSD Foundation, Inc. | License: other-BSD | [text of the NetBSD license] -- see shy jo
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