Per-source copyright/license notice headers that spell out copyright holder
names and years are hard to maintain and often out-of-date or plain wrong.
Precise contributor information is already maintained automatically by the
version control tool. Ultimately it is the receiver of a file who is
responsible for determining its licensing status, and per-source notices are
merely a convenience. Therefore it is simpler and more accurate for
each source to have a generic notice of the license name and references to
more detailed information on copyright holders and full license terms.
Our `Copyright.txt` file now contains a list of Contributors whose names
appeared source-level copyright notices. It also references version control
history for more precise information. Therefore we no longer need to spell
out the list of Contributors in each source file notice.
Replace CMake per-source copyright/license notice headers with a short
description of the license and links to `Copyright.txt` and online information
available from "https://cmake.org/licensing". The online URL also handles
cases of modules being copied out of our source into other projects, so we
can drop our notices about replacing links with full license text.
Run the `Utilities/Scripts/filter-notices.bash` script to perform the majority
of the replacements mechanically. Manually fix up shebang lines and trailing
newlines in a few files. Manually update the notices in a few files that the
script does not handle.
Ancient versions of CMake required else(), endif(), and similar block
termination commands to have arguments matching the command starting the
block. This is no longer the preferred style.
Run the following shell code:
for c in else endif endforeach endfunction endmacro endwhile; do
echo 's/\b'"$c"'\(\s*\)(.\+)/'"$c"'\1()/'
done >convert.sed &&
git ls-files -z -- bootstrap '*.cmake' '*.cmake.in' '*CMakeLists.txt' |
egrep -z -v '^(Utilities/cm|Source/kwsys/)' |
egrep -z -v 'Tests/CMakeTests/While-Endwhile-' |
xargs -0 sed -i -f convert.sed &&
rm convert.sed
Re-fix problem exposed by recent commit to FindPythonInterp.
If the find "details" has new lines in it, then replace them
with the empty string so that the string may be saved as a
cache entry that can be re-read next time CMake runs.
Use REGEX REPLACE, and replace with an empty string, eliminating
the problem characters, so that we may easily extend this to
include additional problem characters in the future if necessary.
Fix problem exposed by recent commit to FindPythonInterp.
If the find "details" has new lines in it, then replace them
with literal "\n" two character sequences so that the string
may be saved as a cache entry that can be re-read next time
CMake runs.
This adds copyright/license notification blocks CMake's find-modules.
Many of the modules had no notices at all. Some had notices referring
to the BSD license already. This commit normalizes existing notices and
adds missing notices.
- Defines FIND_PACKAGE_MESSAGE function to help display
find result messages only once
- Added use of it to FindPackageHandleStandardArgs
- Added use of it to FindQt4, and FindX11
- This cleans up repeated messages in big projects
Brad King
Rolf Eike Beer
Kitware Robot
David Cole
Todd Gamblin