[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#718651: Bug#718651: Bug#718651: Bug#718651: Built hostapd/wpasupplicant 2.1 (patch)

[Gerald Turner]

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, 04 Jun 2014, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
>> > The Perl script (attached) took a few hours to write - there's a
>> > brick of about 60 lines to munge file moves.  Then about another
>> > hour to inspect all that output, plus poking at each file to make
>> > sure that the license change actually occured.
>>
>> Thank you a lot, this really helps. I'll integrate your changes over
>> the next few days after some further local testing.
>
> I'm glad that this got sorted out but I wanted to point out that
> you are actually too demanding of yourself in terms of what to put in
> debian/copyright.
>
> You don't have to document the copyright holders of each and every
> file.  What truly matters is to properly distinguish the different
> licenses and the files concerned by each license.
>
> Listing of copyright holders doesn't have to be exhaustive (it's
> impossible for big projects) and it's perfectly acceptable to group
> them for a set of files that share a common license. See how the linux
> packages uses:
>
> Files: *
> Copyright: 1991-2012 Linus Torvalds and many others
> License: GPL-2

Thanks Raphael, I was wondering about this.

Looks like Jouni Malinen began changing from dual license BSD/GPL-2 to
BSD-only in February 2012 and the transition is well documented in the
CONTRIBUTIONS file.

Very few files remain containing the dual license file header comments:

  Files: hostapd/logwatch/*
  Copyright: 2005, Henrik Brix Andersen <brix at gentoo.org>
  License: BSD or GPL-2

  Files: src/utils/radiotap.c
         src/utils/radiotap_iter.h
  Copyright: 2007, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>
             2009, Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net>
  License: BSD or GPL-2

There's also a couple other files: copy of nl80211.h from Linux kernel,
some artwork, a spurious Android Makefile.

Other than those exceptions, perhaps the following is sufficient as
Raphael suggests:

  Files: *
  Copyright: 2002-2014, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi>
  License: BSD

An oddity I've noticed while scrutinizing over the git history is that
one attribution statement in particular, "2007-2008, Intel Corporation",
has been deleted from many files.  Should debian/copyright care?

Also there are a lot of attributions to "Atheros Communications" and
"Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.", looks like these companies merged and Jouni
Malinen works at Qualcomm, further supporting a simplification of
debian/copyright.

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