[Spice-devel] [spice-gtk 03/11] Add missing (C) to copyright line

[Marc-André Lureau]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 02:02:27PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Quoting GNU maintainer manual:
> > https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html
> >
> > "Alternatively, the ‘(C)’ or C-in-a-circle can be omitted entirely; the
> > word ‘Copyright’ suffices."
>
> The rule which asks for that to be done is:
> sc_copyright_format:
>         @require='Copyright .*Red 'Hat', Inc\.'                         \
>         containing='Copyright .*Red 'Hat                                \
>         halt='Red Hat copyright is missing Inc.'                        \
>           $(_sc_search_regexp)
>         @prohibit='Copyright [^(].*Red 'Hat                             \
>         halt='consistently use (C) in Red Hat copyright'                \
>           $(_sc_search_regexp)
>         @prohibit='\<Red''Hat\>'                                        \
>         halt='spell Red Hat as two words'                               \
>           $(_sc_search_regexp)
>
> I don't know if Red Hat legal department insists on the (C) being present.
> I can reword the commit log to explicit it's only being enforced for Red
> Hat's
> copyright, or I can drop the patch.
>
>
It might be specified by Red Hat legal somewhere, but then I wonder why
there wouldn't be checks for that (in RH builds checks), so it's probably
unneeded.



-- 
Marc-André Lureau
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