[TUHS] History of cal(1)?

Steve Nickolas via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Fri Sep 26 08:14:36 AEST 2025


On Thu, 25 Sep 2025, Steffen Nurpmeso via TUHS wrote:

> And today i programmer am still too apprehensive to remove the
> complete copyright notice, leaving only the present
>
> * SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC
>
> though the Linux kernel (but hey: Linux kernel!) goes that way, as
> far as i see.  (Likely via a mostly automatized sed(1) run.
> It shortens --copyright output to two lines (minimum), in theory.

I have a policy of always including the full license terms in every source 
file if it's a university-style license (e.g., MIT, BSD, UIUC).  Better 
safe than sorry.  Often I'll *also* include a license.txt with the same 
content.

But I'm weird like that.

-uso.


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