<div dir="ltr">We've had this discussion before, many times. I've pointed out many times it can be easy, using a form that's now over 20 years old. This is taken from linux.<br><div><br></div><div><pre style="padding:1em;overflow:auto"><font color="#787878" face="Monaco, Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span style="font-size:12.539999961853px;line-height:normal"><b><i> * Copyright 1993 United States Government as represented by the
* Director, National Security Agency.
*
* This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
* of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:0.95em;line-height:normal"><b><br></b></span></font></pre><pre style="padding:1em;overflow:auto"><font color="#787878" face="Monaco, Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span style="font-size:12.539999961853px;line-height:normal"><b><i><br></i></b></span></font></pre><pre style="padding:1em;overflow:auto"><font color="#787878" face="Monaco, Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span style="font-size:12.539999961853px;line-height:normal"><b><i>it doesn't get much simpler than that. I just wish we could get buyin. You're not required to cite the NSA. use your own company.</i></b></span></font></pre><pre style="padding:1em;overflow:auto"><font color="#787878" face="Monaco, Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span style="font-size:12.539999961853px;line-height:normal"><b><i><br></i></b></span></font></pre><pre style="padding:1em;overflow:auto"><font color="#787878" face="Monaco, Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span style="font-size:12.539999961853px;line-height:normal"><b><i>ron</i></b></span></font></pre></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:07 PM Alexandru Gagniuc <<a href="mailto:mr.nuke.me@gmail.com">mr.nuke.me@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There's this thing called a copyright notice, which is pretty cool. When<br>
coding on 24" monitors or larger, it's this tiny thing that keeps some legal<br>
history of a file. The world is perfect and there are no issues!<br>
<br>
Then FSF comes and teaches us to be in-your-face with a 20+ line copyright<br>
notice, and laptops happen. And 14" screens become a long-forgotten glory. Now<br>
you have to *BLEEP*ing scroll down every time you open a file just to get to<br>
the real content. It becomes so annoying, that I will personally stop giving<br>
positive gerrit scores on any CL that introduces such a file.<br>
<br>
Then we get to situations where we waste all that copyright notice space for<br>
one line of code [1]. This madness has to stop.<br>
<br>
Tell me what the file does, add your (C) line, tell me how you license the<br>
file, and move on! Start coding already for *BLEEP*'s sake! Here:<br>
<br>
/*<br>
* On copyright notices: Angry email to coreboot mailing list<br>
*<br>
* Copyright (C) Some really pissed off guy <<a href="mailto:angry@mad.com" target="_blank">angry@mad.com</a>><br>
* Licensed under WTFPL, or, at your option, Allah Akbar public license.<br>
*/<br>
<br>
There, you've achieved the same thing as that abomination of notice that we<br>
need to change whenever some third party moves its headquarters. Now I can<br>
open a file and see<br>
<br>
/*<br>
* On the subject of flowers and sunny skies<br>
*<br>
...<br>
<br>
and I immediately know I'm in the wrong place. Be pragmatic! Be practical!<br>
Tell me what your file does. Talk about it. Document stuff. It's a much better<br>
use of space. I could probably kidnap any of you, torture you asking for your<br>
bank information, and you'd be much more likely to recite, without error, all<br>
versions of the GPL.<br>
<br>
And once that's settled, we can start migrating all files to concise notices,<br>
while keeping the exact same information we had before.<br>
<br>
TL;DR<br>
<br>
1) Tell me about your file<br>
2) Add your (C) line<br>
3) Document the license of your choosing (in 1 line)<br>
4) Move on to coding!<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/8488/10/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/ram_calc.h" target="_blank">http://review.coreboot.org/#/<u></u>c/8488/10/src/cpu/amd/model_<u></u>10xxx/ram_calc.h</a><br>
<br>
Alex<br>
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