[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Copyright / license pet peeves

[Ian Romanick]

On 08/19/2015 08:51 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> Patches 1 and 6 were too large for the mailing list, so I checked them
> in your tree. Patch 6 has some diffs that leave lines badly wrapped:
> 
> + * THE COPYRIGHT OWNER(S) AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
> + * DAMAGES OR OTHER
> + * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
> 
> other than that, all this looks like an improvement to me.
> 
> There are some instances of "VMWARE" and "THE COPYRIGHT OWNER(S)
> AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS" that don't match the license
> (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) that I think should be changed.
> In particular, "VMWARE" is odd since they're not the copyright holder.

I left the odd wrapping on purpose.  With the bad wrapping, it makes the
diff script show a smaller set of changes in those files relative to the
"canonical" license.  I thought about putting the odd "DAMAGES OR OTHER"
on the previous line, but that would have made it much too long.

My real hope is that I can just replace those outliers with the
canonical license... leaving the odd wrapping will make that patch
smaller. :)