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  2. MDEV-5483

Make sure all files in MariaDB have proper license headers

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          While packaging MariaDB for Debian I noticed that there are many source files that lack proper license headers. For the sake of clarity and machine parseability if would be good if all source files would have proper license headers.

          The output of "mariadb$ licensecheck --copyright -r . -c ." showing many files with license UNKNOWN is at http://labs.seravo.fi/~otto/mariadb-repo/mariadb-5.5.34-license-headers.txt

          Just to make is explicit: I didn't find any legal issues while looking at the licenses. Many folders have folder wide copyright files etc instead of per file headers, so from a legal perspective things are ok, this is just a markup issue.

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                otto Otto Kekäläinen added a comment -

                Here is an example of what a good file license header would look like:

                Copyright (C) 2014  The MariaDB Foundation

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; version 2 of the License.

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>

                Official guidlines are at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

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                otto Otto Kekäläinen added a comment - Here is an example of what a good file license header would look like: Copyright (C) 2014 The MariaDB Foundation 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; version 2 of the License. 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> Official guidlines are at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
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                otto Otto Kekäläinen added a comment -

                This bug in Debian is somwhat related:
                mariadb-server-core-5.5: MariaDB lacks documentation of OpenSSL exception to GPL
                https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761911

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                otto Otto Kekäläinen added a comment - This bug in Debian is somwhat related: mariadb-server-core-5.5: MariaDB lacks documentation of OpenSSL exception to GPL https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761911

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                  • Assignee:
                    holyfoot Alexey Botchkov
                    Reporter:
                    otto Otto Kekäläinen
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