250812 - Various mailnews files missing license text

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Will attach list produced from:
grep -Lr "BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK" mailnews/* |grep -v CVS |grep -v cvsignore

Comment 1

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Attachment: List of files

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is a known issue. It may get fixed one day, but don't hold your breath. You
should assume a file with no license has the same license as other files in the
same directory or parent directory.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Is that a guarantee?  If so, it should be trivial to fix with a script (I can go
ahead and do that).

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

We have relicensing scripts :-) Adding licenses to files without them is
certainly less of a priority than changing the license on e.g. NPLed files to
the tri-license. That's where effort is currently being focussed.

Gerv

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 6

[:aceman]

Can this be updated and a new list produced? There were licence update efforts in the not distant past so maybe this was fixed already?

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Wow, this is an old bug :-)

The most recent relicensing efforts did add headers to a lot of files. This bug serves no additional useful purpose.

Gerv