[Mesa-dev] [RFC] docs: Add a copyright.c template we can copy when making new files.

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Kenneth Graunke (2018-10-19 18:51:36)
> Usually when making a new file, people copy some random other file
> to get the copyright header comments.  Unfortunately, some of them
> are commented in a decades-old style, are word wrapped poorly, or
> worse, have a few subtle variations in the text.  While we've tried
> to clean those up, we're not going to get every copy to be perfect.
> 
> Instead, this commit adds docs/copyright.c, which contains a copy of
> the license header which is well-formatted and has the correct text.
> The idea is that you can start from this when making a new file, which
> should help with consistency.
> ---
>  docs/copyright.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 docs/copyright.c
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I noticed when writing my new Iris driver that I had a couple subtle
> variations of copyright headers creep in, even in a brand new project.
> Mostly word wrapping differences.  To combat that, I made a copyright.c
> and made sure to use it when I created new files.  It seemed to help.
> 
> So, the thinking is to just actually put that in the project under docs.
> Maybe it helps other people as well?

May I suggest spdx.org and in particular using a format such as

/* SPDX: MIT */

with a toplevel description of what the link means. From a dev point of
view, it's much quicker to see what licence variant is being used and
even harder for mistakes to creep in.
-Chris