Licensing about grid

[paboyle]

I think I intended GPL v2. let me look into it.
Peter

On 27 Oct 2015, at 12:31, Antonin Portelli [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

As the code is available publicly and certainly receive attention, I think we should license it properly. There is already a GPLv3 text distributed in COPYING. It would be safer to mark all source file as prescribed by the FSF guys. I suggest that we add a license header to each individual source file . I propose the following header:

/*

• .cc, part of Grid
  *
• Copyright (C) 2015
  *
• Grid 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 3 of the License, or
• (at your option) any later version.
  *
• Grid 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 Grid. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
  */
  Please tell me if you think another license is more suitable.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub #20.

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

[aportelli]

Hi Peter, I am just bumping this thread because I realised that I already included here an example of license header.

[paboyle]

Banner added; I went with GPL v2 due to the over aggressive nature of v3 (forced apple to drop binutils, for example, Torvalds refused to move Linux forward to v3).

scripts/copyright is an easy way to generate copyright banner and author list from git log.

Grid_init prints a message like (which works out ok in a fixed font, and comes out in colour
in a colour term):

GGG RRRR IIIII DDD
G G R R I D D
G R R I D D
G GGG RRRR I D D
G G R R I D D
GGGG R R IIIII DDD

Copyright (C) 2015 Peter Boyle, Azusa Yamaguchi, Guido Cossu, Antonin Portelli and other authors

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.

Grid     : Message      : 0 ms : Grid is setup to use 1 threads
....