Alexandros Theodotou <alex@zrythm.org> writes:

Re: our discussion on IRC:

There are at least two files in the GNUnet website source code that
have unclear licenses, rendering them proprietary.
https://git.gnunet.org/www.git/tree/i18nfix.py
https://git.gnunet.org/www.git/tree/template.py

These files have no license or copyright notices. They simply say that
"this file is in the public domain". In at least European countries,
saying that "this file is in the public domain" is not enough to put
something in the public domain. You have to explicitly use a license
such as CC0 or WTFPL, otherwise the files are "all rights reserved".

I'm not really sure you can assume that these files are GPL'd either,
otherwise they'd have a copyright notice. So in effect, these files are
proprietary. I can't copy them and use them in my (A)GPL project.

For such files, if you want to be lax, the GNU package maintainer
guidelines generally recommend this:
"""
Copyright (C) 2019 <name>

Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.  This file is offered as-is,
without any warranty.
"""

Can we add appropriate headers or footers to the files please?

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 05109636..e3789b05 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-# This file is in the public domain.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2017, 2018, 2019 GNUnet e.V.
+#
+# Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
+# are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
+# notice and this notice are preserved.  This file is offered as-is,
+# without any warranty.
+#
+# ----
 
 # All: build HTML pages in all languages and compile the
 # TypeScript logic in web-common.
@@ -92,7 +100,7 @@ docker: docker-all
 
 docker-all:
         docker build -t gnunet-www-builder .
-        # Importing via the shell like this is hacky, 
+        # Importing via the shell like this is hacky,
         # but after trying lots of other ways, this works most reliably...
         $(PYTHON) -c 'import i18nfix'
         docker run --rm -v $$(pwd):/tmp/ --user $$(id -u):$$(id -g) gnunet-www-builder