GNU bug report logs - #76932
Missing or ambiguous license headers in several files

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> debian.org>
Cc: Daniel Meißner <daniel.meissner-i4k <at> ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, Adam Kandur <kefironpremise <at> gmail.com>, Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus <at> gmail.com>, Adam Faiz <adam.faiz <at> disroot.org>, Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>, Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>, Raven Hallsby <karl <at> hallsby.com>, Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>, Morgan Smith <Morgan.J.Smith <at> outlook.com>, 76932 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76932: Missing or ambiguous license headers in several files
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:51:24 +0200

Hi Vagrant,

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> debian.org> writes:

>   doc/package-hello.scm
>
> Arguably, maybe not really sufficiently creative to qualify for
> copyright...

Yes, that and a technical limitation: it’s included in the manual, so
adding the full-blown copyright/license headers would be impractical.  A
single SPDX line would be okay though, but again, is it copyrightable in
the first place?

>  gnu/packages/aux-files/findclass.php
>  * Composer (and thus this file) is distributed under the expat license, and
>  * ClassMapGenerator.php also contains this notice:
>  *
>  *   This file is part of Composer.
>  *
>  *   (c) Nils Adermann <naderman <at> naderman.de>
>  *       Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano <at> seld.be>
>  *
>  *   For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
>  *   file that was distributed with this source code.
>  *
>  *   This file is copied from the Symfony package.
>  *
>  *   (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien <at> symfony.com>
>  * 
>  * To the extent to wich it makes sense, as the author of the extract:
>  * Copyright © 2020 Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
>
> The LICENSE file is not present ... so what is the exact text of the
> "expat" license, as there are many permutations in the wild?

We should check Composer and ask Julien (Cc’d.)

Ludo’.

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