These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
We currently use the ownership of the top-level directory as a hint
whether we need to descent into the whole tree to chown() it recursively
or not. This is problematic with the previous chown()ing algorithm, as
when descending into the tree we'd first chown() and then descend
further down, which meant that the top-level directory would be chowned
first, and an aborted recursive chowning would appear on the next
invocation as successful, even though it was not. Let's reshuffle things
a bit, to make the re-chown()ing safe regarding interruptions:
a) We chown() the dir we are looking at last, and descent into all its
children first. That way we know that if the top-level dir is
properly owned everything inside of it is properly owned too.
b) Before starting a chown()ing operation, we mark the top-level
directory as owned by a special "busy" UID range, which we can use to
recognize whether a tree was fully chowned: if it is marked as busy,
it's definitely not fully chowned, as the busy ownership will only be
fixed as final step of the chowning.
Fixes: #6292
