Re: [Bug-gnulib] missing licenses in gnulib

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
...
>>   lib/dirfd.h
>>   lib/getpagesize.h
>
> coreutils - Jim Meyering.

dirfd.h is just dirent boilerplate code plus two trivial #if blocks.
Not worth worrying about, imho.  The guts are in dirfd.m4.
getpagesize.h was factored out of GPL'd code.
I've added a copyright notice to each of those.

>> The worst problem, however, is in the "m4" and "modules" directories, where
>> most of the files are unlicensed.
>
> For the m4 files, I propose to add the standard notice to them:
>
> dnl Copyright (C) YEARS Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
> dnl General Public License.  As a special exception to the GNU General
> dnl Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program
> dnl that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, under
> dnl the same distribution terms as the rest of that program.
>
> Jim and Paul, is this OK with your gnulib/m4/*.m4 files?

That's fine with me.