Re: Wrong copyright in selinux.c and selinux.h

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/02/2014 05:38 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> a bad copyright line slipped into coreutils.git during the SELinux commits:
> 
>   $ make update-copyright
>     GEN      update-copyright
>   src/selinux.c: warning: copyright statement not found
>   src/selinux.h: warning: copyright statement not found
> 
> These sources should not be copyrighted to Red Hat:
> 
>   for f in src/selinux.{c,h} ; do head -n 2 $f | tail -n1 ; done
>      Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
>      Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
> 
> I wonder why we don't have a syntax-check rule for this yet ...
> 
> I'm not good in such law things, so I would assume you as
> the author are the only one who could re-license it by sending
> us a patch with with the correct line like ...
> 
> -   Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
> +   Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Copyright is assigned to the FSF for all of coreutils,
so we should change this as per the patch above.

thanks,
Pádraig