github / cmark-gfm

GitHub's fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C
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Stripped copyrights #348

Open trixirt opened 1 year ago

trixirt commented 1 year ago

In the review of this package inclusion into Fedora it was noted that some files have been stripped of their copyrights. Though they are in the COPYING file, it would be preferred if they were not stripped. The main point is made here bz222750

The stripping of copy right headers and relicensing should be done only by the holder. ex/ utf8.h's copyright was stripped from utf8proc.h's and it says

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

When the header is removed, a new user could copy utf8.* to some new project and then the notice would not go with it.

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The copyright notices should be returned to the top of each file derived from other sources