ls -1 *.c | while read file; do echo "$file" git annotate -L/either\ version/,+2 $file done Produces: compileTranslationTable.c 2723ada1 (Eitan Isaacson 2008-03-31 20:57:43 +0000 16) Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any 80be8fd3 (Eitan Isaacson 2008-01-16 01:14:49 +0000 17) later version. lou_backTranslateString.c 47b84be2 ( James Teh 2008-09-18 00:28:29 +0000 16) Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any 80be8fd3 (Eitan Isaacson 2008-01-16 01:14:49 +0000 17) later version. lou_translateString.c 9bd6be29 (Christian Egli 2013-10-31 10:38:55 +0000 16) published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the 9bd6be29 (Christian Egli 2013-10-31 10:38:55 +0000 17) License, or (at your option) any later version. wrappers.c 48523e72 (John Boyer 2010-06-18 03:55:28 +0000 11) published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the 48523e72 (John Boyer 2010-06-18 03:55:28 +0000 12) License, or (at your option) any later version. So this doesn't look like a recent/accidental change. thanks, Mesar On Thu 15/05/14,10:23, John Gardner wrote: > So where does it actually say that we are using LGPL3 anyhow? If there is > an inconsistency between the copyright and what somebody has inadvertently > changed on the web site, then it is simply an error that needs to be fixed. > Would that it turns out to be so simple. Christian, do you have insight > into this? > > John G > > > -----Original Message----- > From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. > Boyer > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:27 AM > To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: License issue > > Doesn't the copyright notice say we are using LGPL 2.1? Since this is in > writing, shouldn't it be our official position? It also states that the > software and tables, etc. are copyrighted by ViewPlus and abilitiessoft. I > always expected > that contributors had looked at our files enough to be aware of that. > > I asked Dave Mielke of brltty about changing the license. He said no. If > we tried, we'd have to go back 18 years to when I wrote the first Grade > 2 translator for brltty. We would have nothing! > > John B > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 04:07:23PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote: > > On 05/15/2014 03:43 PM, John Gardner wrote: > > > > >Christian, you say you are not a lawyer, and that is unfortunately all > that needs to be said. The big corporate lawyers are terrified of LGPL3 > just as they were terrified of GPL. Which is why we switched from GPL to > LGPL. It does not matter one whit that you or I think LGPL3 is okay. > > > > A problem that we have (legally speaking) is that we would have a > > very difficult time to trace all the changes to their originating > > author. For example we have tables that were checked in by me or by > > John that were authored by somebody that sent in the table via the > > mailing list we might be able to track these down). Or there are > > probably changes that happened before liblouis was under source > > control (might be hard to find because there might be no record of > > this whatsoever). Since we do not assign copyright we probably have > > a bunch of unknown copyright holders. If we wanted to change the > > license we'd have to ask all of them which is near impossible since > > we do not know them. > > > > The alternative would be to rip out their contribution which is hard > > since in some cases we do not even know what they contributed. > > > > We might be able to rip out all the changes since the change to > > LGPL3 which would be a pitty. > > > > So could we try to convince these big corporate lawyers that LGPL3 > > isn't all that bad? > > > > >If the big corporations will not use liblouis even though some of us > think it is okay with LGPL3, we are making life difficult for blind people > who use their software. > > > > But what else are these big corporations going to use instead? > > > > Thanks > > Christian > > -- > > Christian Egli > > Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled > > Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland > > > > > > ----- > > Tag der offenen Tuer: Die SBS laedt Sie herzlich ein: 28. Juni 2014 > > von 9 bis 16 Uhr. Mehr Informationen erhalten Sie unter > > http://www.sbs.ch/offenetuer > > For a description of the software, to download it and links to > > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com > > -- > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer > Abilitiessoft, Inc. > http://www.abilitiessoft.com > Madison, Wisconsin USA > Developing software for people with disabilities > > For a description of the software, to download it and links to > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com > > For a description of the software, to download it and links to > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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