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Re: copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room rewrite
From: |
Thomas Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room rewrite |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Sep 2018 17:11:43 -0400 (EDT) |
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Paul Eggert" <address@hidden>
| To: "Mathieu Lirzin" <address@hidden>, "Eric Blake" <address@hidden>
| Cc: address@hidden, "automake" <address@hidden>
| Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 2:24:32 PM
| Subject: Re: copyright problem with install-sh, request for clean-room rewrite
| Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
|> According to ‘git blame’ I appear to not have touch this file, so if you
|> think that I am eligible, I am volunteering on this rewriting task.
|
| Thanks for volunteering. Eric, do you think it would save time overall if you
| sent him the part of install-sh that you are sure is *not* problematic, i.e.,
| the part that is already copyright by the FSF? That's typical procedure in a
| cleanroom rewrite of anything large; dunno if it's overkill here.
If it was an issue for me, I'd rewrite it.
fwiw, the copyright was added here -
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=ce6c1f203a5052cda0fdf642e9b462950d954a1d
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