[Buildroot] [PATCH] snmppp: extract license text from source files
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed Jul 22 21:47:56 UTC 2015
Thomas, All,
On 2015-07-22 23:37 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:33:15 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > The v3.cpp file is only 428 lines long, and weights 10260 bytes.
> > > Comparatively, the GPLv2 text is 339 lines long for 18092 bytes, and
> > > the GPLv3 text is 647 lines lon for 35147 bytes.
> > >
> > > If you're really concerned about the file size used for the license of
> > > snmppp, we could switch to use src/gauge.cpp instead of src/v3.cpp.
> > > gauge.cpp is only 75 lines long, for 2804 bytes, and I'd say two thirds
> > > of the file contents are license stuff.
> >
> > It's not about the size of the file. It's just that I find it odd to use
> > a source file as a license file.
>
> If there's nothing better, then using a source file that carries a text
> of the license is good enough to act as a license file, IMO.
In principle, yes. However, consider this case:
- package is BSD-3c licensed, so redistributing the source is not
mandatory,
- the user has a local patch for that package,
- the user does not want to share those modifications, which he is
allowed to do as per the BSD-3c,
- using a source file as license file would "leak" those modifications
(or part of those) in the legal-info.
So, using a source file is not perfect either.
(Note: I would prefer to live in an ideal world where "Open Source" did
not exist and only "Free-as-in-free-speach Software" did, but that's not
the world I'm living in, so... ;-) )
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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