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From: Felix Wolfsteller <felix.wolfsteller@gmail.com>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Update links (use ssl-variant) to opensource.org/[..x..]MIT ?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:33:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALHCSvMFro4v8g0f1yFT6jUdry7wKpJZyYgFU0NTbm2LG-5GRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALHCSvOn8YxFqGu4yXDPnFunNzmy=cmdwKBNmAL45Ymta3REig@mail.gmail.com>

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I am a bit disappointed about the feedback (just received one off-list ;)
), but understand now that this mailing list is protocol-only discussions.
So - sorry for that. Anybody interested can follow progress here:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/12190
Thanks, Felix

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 11:08 AM, Felix Wolfsteller <
felix.wolfsteller@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey there
> Most source files contain the "default" copyright-header (also build by a
> script in devtools/copyright_header.py), which points out that the MIT
> license can be found in the COPYING file or at http://www.opensource.org/
> licenses/mit-license.php.
>
> However, the provided link is 1) using http where it could use https, 2)
> resulting in a redirect (https://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
> anyway.
> I am strongly in favor of using https where possible (I guess there are
> many other non-ssl links in the code base, but lets tackle the easier ones
> first).
>
> I propose that I
> 1) create a issue on github,
> 2) `sed -i` the relevant links,
> 3) create a PR on github,
> 4) come back to the mailing list.
>
> This change would affect a few hundred files I guess.
>
> A question remaining is this change would require a
> copyright-year-extension (to 2018), too.
>
> An example header can be seen e.g. here
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/a9a49e6e7e8df13d80a6dc3245ce7e
> f041942e9b/src/consensus/merkle.cpp#L3
>
> I'd be happy about quick feedback - do not know the culture here, yet.
>
> Have fun
> Felix
>

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2018-01-04 10:08 [bitcoin-dev] Update links (use ssl-variant) to opensource.org/[..x..]MIT ? Felix Wolfsteller
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