Re: Intent to fix license header of *mm stack

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 15:56 +0800, Deng Xiyue wrote:
> Hi mm stack maintainers:
> 
> Thanks for your work on maintaining the C++ bindings of various
> GTK+/GNOME modules.  As the time passes, there are license disparities
> between the COPYING file and various source files, where the former says
> "Lesser General Public License version 2.1" while the latter stays at
> "Library General Public License version 2".  Perhaps after the license
> changed from LGPL-2 to LGPL-2.1 the source file headers are left
> intact.  It'll be good to make them sync again, which will ease the work
> of packagers where the distribution has strong concern on license issue.
> 
> Initially I plan to provide patches through bugzilla, but due to the
> amount of *mm packages this seems less efficient.

Most of it can be done by one big patch to the gnomemm module, I guess.

>   so I've cooked a
> crude and *mm package specific script for this purpose.  It's very
> dirty, and depends on the specific source file header format, but should
> work in this specific situation.  Please consider run the script for
> various *mm packages and check if it works, and then commit.  Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Deng Xiyue
> 
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