From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: remove whitespace from copyright line
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:33:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55871661.0vibtzJOD8@sven-edge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452609161-25243-1-git-send-email-a@unstable.cc>
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On Tuesday 12 January 2016 22:32:41 Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> A whitespace has been accidentally added while updating the copyright
> years in the file headers. Remove it.
>
> Fixes: ee0e93f52a34 ("batman-adv: update copyright years for 2016")
> Cc: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Nacked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
This was on purpose to follow the the "How to Apply These Terms to Your New
Programs" section of the GPL2 [1]. The example given there is following:
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
This way of separating the year and the copyright holder is also used in other
parts of the kernel and other parts of the batman-adv related source code
(e.g. batctl and alfred).
Kind regards,
Sven
[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
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2016-01-12 14:32 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: remove whitespace from copyright line Antonio Quartulli
2016-01-12 15:33 ` Sven Eckelmann [this message]
2016-01-12 15:34 ` Antonio Quartulli
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