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please clarify copyright and the license

Added by Dmitry Smirnov about 10 years ago. Updated almost 10 years ago.

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Please confirm the licensing information for the following files:

Files: src/test/librbd/fsx.c
Copyright: 1991, NeXT Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserverd.
License: ?

There is no license information so this file might be non-free.


Files: src/java/java/com/ceph/crush/Bucket.java
src/java/java/com/ceph/fs/*.java
Copyright: ?
License: MIT

There is no copyright information for those files. A valid copyright statement including year and copyright owner needs to be added. From git history it looks like those files was committed by "Noah Watkins <>". Is he copyright holder?


Files: src/mount/mtab.c

this code lifted from util-linux-ng, licensed GPLv2+

Although source of this file is documented, this file is lacking copyright statement as well.

Please document.

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#1 Updated by Dmitry Smirnov almost 10 years ago

Also please clarify version of CC-BY-SA license used for files in /doc and /man.

Which particular version of the license should be used?
Was the intention to refer to current version of the license (i.e. latest version) or any version or any particular version?

Please note that older versions than 3.0 of the license may be not DFSG-compatible (version 3.0 is OK).

Please find the current text of the license here:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

I recommend to include full text of the license to source tree.
Also please consider to allow upgrading documentation license by using clause like "version 3.0 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.", similar to GPL licenses.

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