[libvirt] [PATCH] Desert the FSF address in copyright

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Sat Jul 21 13:44:55 UTC 2012


On 07/21/2012 04:21 AM, Osier Yang wrote:
> Per the FSF address could be changed from time to time, and GNU
> recommends the following now: (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html)
> 
>   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>   along with Foobar.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> 
> This patch removes the explicit FSF address, and uses above instead
> (of course, with inserting 'Lesser' before 'General').
> 
> Except a bunch of files for security driver, all others are changed
> automatically, the copyright for securify files are not complete,
> that's why to do it manually:
> 
>   src/security/security_selinux.h
>   src/security/security_driver.h
>   src/security/security_selinux.c
>   src/security/security_apparmor.h
>   src/security/security_apparmor.c
>   src/security/security_driver.c
> ---
>  daemon/libvirtd-config.c                  |    4 ++--
>  daemon/libvirtd-config.h                  |    4 ++--

...

ACK.  I think we still need to audit for files that are completely
missing a copyright notice, but this looks like a mechanical replacement
for all the files that have an address.

I'd recommend a followup patch to cfg.mk to introduce a syntax check
that guarantees we are using the right URL address in each file.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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