svn commit: r335270 - head/lib/liby

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net
Sun Jun 17 16:20:20 UTC 2018


> On 17 June 2018 at 08:49, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > All this drama about "copying" one line of text and adding another to
> > create a new file. The no-brainer fix is to add a proper new-file
> > license and stop arguing about what flavor of copying and what rules
> > might apply to that.
> 
> I didn't add my copyright since I didn't write it. I'll rewrite from
> scratch and add my own new-file copyright. This file contains
> precisely zero creative output [0] so it should't matter too much.

I am fine with that solution.  I am *not* fine with stamping UCB
copyrights on something without source traceability to the UCB
file that it came from.  I hope all can understand that issue.
If you can't lets take it offline.

> 
> > And for something that might actually matter: nobody seems to have
> > noticed that this new header file lacks the standard include guards
> > (something which style(9) seems to be silent about).
> 
> Good point.

You normally do not need to do include guards on
header files used by a single program.

> 
> [0] Oracle v Google notwithstanding
> 

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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