Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [hbelusca] 74698: [USETUP]: Minor fixes & simplifications: - Remove a redundant NtClose call; - Return failure if NtQuerySymbolicLinkObject fails; - Use RTL_CONSTANT_STRING and RtlInitEmptyUnicodeS...

[Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO]

Hi Colin,
But then, why do we have these ">   * COPYRIGHT:       See COPYING in the top
level directory" lines in all our code headers then?
Is it because COPYING is actually just the GPLv2 (which seems to be the case)? Would it
then be preferable to add this in the main (or another) COPYING file so that we can reuse
these conditions elsewhere instead of cluttering the ROS code with these headers (that are
put everywhere)? Your propositions that you're mentioning at the end of your mail
sound interesting.

I'm ofc ready to put the notice back in the file.

Thanks for the info,
Hermès

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Ros-dev [mailto:[e-mail]] De la part de Colin Finck
Envoyé : mercredi 31 mai 2017 10:23
À : 'ReactOS Development List'
Objet : Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [hbelusca] 74698: [USETUP]: Minor fixes &
simplifications: - Remove a redundant NtClose call; - Return failure if
NtQuerySymbolicLinkObject fails; - Use RTL_CONSTANT_STRING and RtlInitEmptyUnicodeS...

hbelusca(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
>   -/*
>  - *  ReactOS kernel
>  - *  Copyright (C) 2002 ReactOS Team
>  - *
>  - *  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; either version 2 of the License, or
>  - *  (at your option) any later version.
>  - *
>  - *  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, write to the Free
> Software Foundation, 
Inc.,
>   - *  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
> 02110-1301 USA.
>  - */
>   /*
>    * COPYRIGHT:       See COPYING in the top level directory
>    * PROJECT:         ReactOS text-mode setup 
You're taking away the information that this file is licensed under
GPLv2 or any later version (as opposed to GPLv2-only, what some developers prefer).
Also the entire license information is lost when this file is used as part of a different
source tree.

I have visited a seminar by our friend Nuno Brito last week, who has founded a company
that deals with such topics (www.triplecheck.tech).
There are some simple best practices we can apply here to get consistent and useful
headers once and for all.
The first would be using the established SPDX license identifiers from
https://spdx.org/licenses (here: "GPL-2.0+"). This would also make our source
files easily scannable by tools to get an overview of all licenses involved in our code
and imported third-party components.

If you or someone else is interested in working on this, let's draft a universal
header for our files that is compatible with SPDX.
Otherwise, I will have a look when there's more time..


Cheers,

Colin

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