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    Add copyright statements in libc/ · bec69a62
    Nadav Har'El authored
    Add Cloudius copyright statements in libc/.
    
    One unfortunate problem we have in libc/ is that most of the code there was copied
    from Musl, and Musl is copyrighted and licensed, but individual files do not carry
    any statements - Rich Felker explains in Musl's COPYRIGHT file: "The decision to
    exclude such comments is intentional, as it should be possible to carry around the
    complete source code on tiny storage media."
    
    In the future, we should find all the Musl files and add to each one the line
    Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Rich Felker. But we'll need to do it carefully so as not
    to wrongly attribute non-Musl code to Musl. In the meantime, if we just have
    documentation/LICENSE-musl, and don't claim our own copyright on the musl files,
    I think we're playing fair.
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    Add copyright statements in libc/
    Nadav Har'El authored
    Add Cloudius copyright statements in libc/.
    
    One unfortunate problem we have in libc/ is that most of the code there was copied
    from Musl, and Musl is copyrighted and licensed, but individual files do not carry
    any statements - Rich Felker explains in Musl's COPYRIGHT file: "The decision to
    exclude such comments is intentional, as it should be possible to carry around the
    complete source code on tiny storage media."
    
    In the future, we should find all the Musl files and add to each one the line
    Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Rich Felker. But we'll need to do it carefully so as not
    to wrongly attribute non-Musl code to Musl. In the meantime, if we just have
    documentation/LICENSE-musl, and don't claim our own copyright on the musl files,
    I think we're playing fair.