[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] License header consistency

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 8/18/08, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:05:57AM +0300, Tomi Ollila wrote:
>> On Mon 18 Aug 2008 08:54, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at guru.guru-group.fi>
>> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > What kind of pre-commit hook ?
>> >
>> > Like this?
>> >
>> > --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<--
>> heavily buggy version deleted
>> > --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<--
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> case `head -n <l1> <f> | tr -d \\015 | sha1sum` in <sum-of-gpl-2.1>*) exit
>> 0 ;; esac
>> case `head -n <l2> <f> | tr -d \\015 | sha1sum` in <sum-of-lgpl-2.0>*)
>> exit 0 ;; esac
>>
>> echo "File '<f>' license header mismatch. >&2
>> exit 1
>
> The license headers look like:
> /*
>  * copyright (c) 2001 Fabrice Bellard
>  *
>  * This file is part of FFmpeg.
> ...
> the first line will likely lead to sha1 mismatches

This check would also exclude the possibility of using more permissive
licenses like BSD, MIT, public code - e.g. vc1dsp_mmc.c
I mean, at least without asking roots for help,
and they like to ignore 99% of the requests.