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.
Since all our python scripts have a proper python3 shebang, there is no benefit
to letting meson autodetect them. On linux, meson will just uses exec(), so the
shebang is used anyway. The only difference should be in how meson reports the
script and that the detection won't fail for (most likely misconfigured)
non-UTF8 locales.
Closes#5855.
This is useful on systems like NixOS, where python3 is not in
/usr/bin/python3 as well as for people using alternative ways to
install python such as virtualenv/pyenv.
The idea is that after adding a new man page, make update-man-list
will be used to regenerate part of the makefile. So the data already
present in the makefile cannot be used to do that.
Also, renames filter out generated xml files in make-man-rules.py
itself in order to make Makefile.am a bit simpler, and rename files
to dist_files to better reflect new meaning.
Yu Watanabe