[PATCH weston] Update COPYING

[Bryce Harrington]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 07:50:45AM -0600, Derek Foreman wrote:
> On 17/02/17 07:47 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> >On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:45:58 +0000
> >Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Include a list of every copyright statement within the COPYING file.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com>
> >>---
> >> COPYING | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
> >>index faefd8f..418b4b4 100644
> >>--- a/COPYING
> >>+++ b/COPYING
> >>@@ -1,8 +1,35 @@
> >>-Copyright © 2008-2012 Kristian Høgsberg
> >>-Copyright © 2010-2012 Intel Corporation
> >>-Copyright © 2010-2011 Benjamin Franzke
> >>-Copyright © 2011-2012 Collabora, Ltd.
> >>-Copyright © 2010 Red Hat <mjg at redhat.com>
> >>+Copyright © 2008 Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
> >>+Copyright © 2008-2013 Kristian Høgsberg
> >>+Copryight © 2009 Chris Wilson
> >>+Copyright © 2011-2012 Benjamin Franzke
> >>+Copyright © 2010-2013 Intel Corporation
> >>+Copyright © 2010-2015 Red Hat
> >>+Copyright © 2011 Tim Wiederhake
> >>+Copyright © 2011-2016 Collabora, Ltd.
> >>+Copyright © 2012 John Kåre Alsaker
> >>+Copyright © 2012 Martin Minarik
> >>+Copyright © 2012 Openismus GmbH
> >>+Copyright © 2012 Philipp Brüschweiler
> >>+Copyright © 2012 Rob Clark
> >>+Copyright © 2012 Sam Spilsbury
> >>+Copyright © 2012 Scott Moreau
> >>+Copyright © 2012-2013 Jonas Ådahl
> >>+Copyright © 2012-2013 Raspberry Pi Foundation
> >>+Copyright © 2013 David FORT
> >>+Copyright © 2013 David Herrmann
> >>+Copyright © 2013 Philip Withnall
> >>+Copyright © 2013 Rafael Antognolli
> >>+Copyright © 2013 Richard Hughes
> >>+Copyright © 2013 Vasily Khoruzhick
> >>+Copyright © 2013-2015 Jasper St. Pierre
> >>+Copyright © 2013-1014 Jason Ekstrand
> >>+Copyright © 2013-2016 DENSO CORPORATION
> >>+Copyright © 2014 Pekka Paalanen
> >>+Copyright © 2015 General Electric Company
> >>+Copyright © 2015-2016 Samsung Electrics Co., Ltd
> >>+Copryight © 2016 Armin Krezović
> >>+Copyright © 2016 Benoit Gschwind
> >>+Copyright © 2016 NVIDIA Corporation
> >>
> >> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> >> copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have been verifying this with:
> >
> >$ while read LINE; do if [ -z "$LINE" ]; then break; fi; echo "---"; grep -nR "$(echo "$LINE" | cut -d' ' -f4-)" *; done < COPYING
> >
> >and I saw some discrepancies:
> >- Kristian should be 2008-2012, not 2013
> >- Intel should be 2009-2013
> >- Spilsbury should be 2013
> >- David FORT is not found, but I recall he's the RDP backend author, so
> >  definitely has copyright, the line in compositor-rdp.c is just
> >  something else.
> >- Rafael Antognolli is not found?
> >- Jasper St. Pierre should be 2015 only
> >- Samsung Electrics Co., Ltd should be Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
> >
> >We talked in IRC, and noticed that you included generated files whose
> >source (XML files) are not in Weston repository and we do not
> >distribute the generated files at all.
> >
> >We agreed to see about a v2.
> 
> How about we just remove all the copyrights from COPYING and let
> anyone that needs to collate this list do it themselves...
> 
> That way we don't need to remember to update it in 2 weeks when
> someone adds a copyright to a file and doesn't realize we duplicate
> the info in COPYING? :)

+1

It seems atypical amongst open source projects to have an exhaustive
(and duplicative as pointed out) listing of copyright statements.  Has
there been an issue raised from outside the project that this listing
would solve?

Bryce