Re: Packaging for Ubuntu, missing copyright information

> Liquibase has a licence file as part of its code base but it should probably exist at the very top of the code base on trunk as well. Is it really necessary to copy the header to every single source file?
>
> Paul
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Maia Kozheva <sikon@...>
> To: liquibase-devel@...
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 April, 2009 2:44:42
> Subject: [Liquibase-devel] Packaging for Ubuntu, missing copyright information
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> Greetings!
>
> I'm packaging the liquibase library for Ubuntu. Unfortunately, it lacks
> copyright headers in .java files and information about upstream authors.
>
> As explained in the text of the LGPL (lgpl.txt), to make this software suitable
> for inclusion in a free software distribution, you need to add headers like this
> to the .java files included in the source tarball:
>
> /*
>     Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
>
>     This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>     modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>     License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>     version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>
>     This library 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
>     Lesser General Public License for more details.
>
>     You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
>     License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
>     Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA
> */
>
> Ideally, such a header should appear in build.xml as well.
>
> I would appreciate if you could release an updated source tarball with modified
> source files ASAP.
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