[PATCH 1/1] libtftpfs: Change to BSD-2-Clause license

[Joel Sherrill]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 12:12 PM Frank Kühndel <
frank.kuehndel at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> Hi Sebastian,
>
> On 3/15/22 17:46, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > On 15/03/2022 17:27, Frank Kuehndel wrote:
> >> + * Copyright (C) W. Eric Norum
> >
> > Copyright statements should have a year. You can use the Git history to
> > get it.
>
> Yes, I know. But I can only trace the history back to
>
> commit 39e6e65a2c5a3312f365d59f23c469641e049c82
> Author: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com>
> Date:   Wed Aug 19 21:32:28 1998 +0000
>
> This commit is apparently not the one for the author. I can only guess:
> These files where imported from FreeBSD??? - and most likely from
> another RCS??? They originally contain the famous CVS and SVN tag $Id$
> (without date unfortunately)
>

The git conversion made whoever commited to CVS the author. Since I tended
to commit all submissions for a long time, I'm noted as the author.

Put 1998 since that's when it was committed and most likely authored.

--joel


> Hence, I concluded the simplest solution is not to provide the year.
>
> Greetings,
> fk
>
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