Licensing: can we remove all the requirements to provide notice of modifications?

[brunolevy]

Licensing: can we remove all the requirements to provide notice of modifications?

[BrunoLevy]

Ooops, I overlooked a couple of files, I'm fixing that...

[BrunoLevy]

Fixed in the latest commit (and double checked with a recursive grep).

[dkogan]

Excellent. Thank you! You said you're releasing 1.8.2 in a few days, right? I'll wait until that release to look at this again.

[BrunoLevy]

Would you take a look at the current version ? If there are small changes to make, I'd rather include them in 1.8.2 (not possible to change once released). Thank you in advance.

[dkogan]

I just looked at the current git. I see this:

dima@shorty:~/projects/geogram$ git grep -li 'If you modify this software, you should include a notice'

doc/devkit/PSM.dox
doc/devkit/design.dox
doc/devkit/license.dox
doc/devkit/mainpage.dox
doc/devkit/programmer.dox

[dkogan]

While I'm at it, here are some other licensing inconsistencies (everything found by grepping the sources for "copyright"):

• The BSD-3clause text in the LICENSE file isn't identical to the license text in most of the sources. They aren't different in any important way, but looking and finding the differences can waste people's time. Can we remove the LICENSE file? It doesn't apply to ALL the sources anyway.
• src/lib/geogram/basic/command_line.cpp prints out a copyright statement. It doesn't have matching copyright years. Can that printing be removed?

That's it, I think. Thanks for looking at this!

[BrunoLevy]

Fixed.
Normally v1.8.2 will be created this WE, please tell me if you find something else before then.
Best,
-- B

[BrunoLevy]

1.8.2 is out !