Re: [Bug 9] New: Complete list of copyrights

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     We have a file, /usr/src/COPYRIGHT, which is supposed to fill this
>     role but it is almost certainly incomplete.
> 
>     We just need the copyrights, maintaining the corresponding files
>     would be troublesome, unless we automate the requirement that all
>     copyright statements appear in /usr/src/COPYRIGHT and enforce it
>     in the cvs commit, then the file list could be generated
>     automatically.

justin@forknibbler# glimpse -F 'dfcvs/src' -i -w -h 'copyright \(c\)' | sort
| uniq | wc -l
    3832 

That's nearly 4K distinct copyrights...  A lot of them are FSF.