[PATCH] Update COPYING file

Gaetan Nadon memsize at videotron.ca
Thu Nov 14 14:31:49 PST 2013


On 13-11-14 04:59 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> That's from the kernel linux/input.h header. We're using the constants
> defined in there at compile time, but there is no GPL code we link to. Using
> GPL'd kernel headers is fine, there's plenty of documentation that indicates that it
> doesn't make the GPL apply to the rest of the project.
Great! I learned something :-)
>
> I wonder if we should add a note to that effect to the COPYING file?
Done in v2, feel free to edit
>
>> >  COPYING |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
>> > index 2a942c0..428e972 100644
>> > --- a/COPYING
>> > +++ b/COPYING
>> > @@ -17,3 +17,29 @@ CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,
>> >  DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
>> >  TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE
>> >  OF THIS SOFTWARE.
>> > +
>> > +Copyright © 2013 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com>
> David's copyright notice appears the same as the existing one, so we should
> be able to just use this line below the current Red Hat line, right?
Yep, just forgot about that.
>
> Cheers,
>    Peter
>



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