Project License?

[kphillisjr]

I was looking at the various etoile projects and noticed that this project does not mention a specific license. Is there any chance to add a License file stating what the intended license of this project is?

[davidchisnall]

It's intended to be MIT licensed. Before the reorganisation, it inherited the license file from the containing folder.

[kphillisjr]

Thank you for the quick response, and getting a response from the original author makes this a lot easier. Anyways the Original source code on gna ( svn web viewable link ) and the first commit on this git (see: I did take a chance to look at the original source repository for the first commit for this Repository ( See: 03a406d ) is the whole reason for this... Is there any chance to get a commit on this and a few other repositories clearly stating the license?

[davidchisnall]

I probably won't have a chance to get to this until the weekend, but if you want to send a pull request that adds the license file (ideally one that adds per-file licenses / copyright headers) with an MIT or 2-clause BSD license then I'll happily merge it.

[kphillisjr]

I got the changes completed. I went ahead and wrote the changes against MIT license, and identified all of the contributors to this project... In general the overall COPYING file looks like this...

Copyright (c) 2010-2013 David Chisnall
Copyright (c) 2011 Niels Grewe
Copyright (c) 2012 Nicolas Roard
Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Quentin Mathe
Copyright (c) 2014 Alessandro Sangiuliano
Copyright (c) 2014 Eric Wasylishen

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

Also, I added Copyright headers to all the files, and I wanted to find out on how I should handle the patches... Should I use a single all in one patch, two patches ( One for the Copying File, and another to add the per-file license headers ), or multiple patches ( One for the Copying file, and separate commits for each source/header file combination )

[davidchisnall]

Both together is fine, thanks for doing this!