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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 02:28:25PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> 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.

This syntax-check rule isn't about enforcing a legal requirement
but rather ensuring that we use a consist copyright header across
all source files. 

Regards,
Daniel
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