Relicense fileviewinfo under the MIT license

The test files in the testfiles directory remain in the public domain, where that is possible.
dfandrich · Mar 15, 2023 · f1b7803 · f1b7803
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diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Makefile for installing fileviewinfo
-# Placed into the public domain by Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
-# See the file COPYING for details of how CC0 applies to this file.
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
+# Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE).
 #
 # This Makefile relies on some GNU make extensions.
 
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ NROFFFLAGS=-man -c
 
 VERSION=$(shell ./fv -\? | sed -n '1s/^.*ver. //p')
 SOURCES = fv fvi autodescribe automtime fv.1 fvi.1 autodescribe.1 automtime.1
-DISTFILES = $(SOURCES) Makefile Makefile-testfiles README.md COPYING \
+DISTFILES = $(SOURCES) Makefile Makefile-testfiles README.md LICENSE \
 	.gitignore test-fv-expected test-fvi-expected test-autodescribe-expected \
 	test-automtime-expected testfiles/*
 DOC_TARGETS = fv.man fv.html fvi.man fvi.html autodescribe.man \

diff --git a/Makefile-testfiles b/Makefile-testfiles
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Instructions for generating sample test files
 #
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
+# Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE).
+#
 # The resulting files are checked in (with a few exceptions at the end) so that
 # these commands never need to be run again.  Smaller file size is sometimes
 # prioritized over ease of creation. All generated files must also be able to

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -70,12 +70,12 @@ The project home is at https://github.com/dfandrich/fileviewinfo/  Report bugs
 or issues there, or submit pull requests to support new file types.
 
 [![Download](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/dfandrich/fileviewinfo?sort=semver)](https://github.com/dfandrich/fileviewinfo/releases/latest)
-[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC0v1-blue.svg)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/license/mit/)
 [![Github Actions Build Status](https://github.com/dfandrich/fileviewinfo/workflows/CI/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://github.com/dfandrich/fileviewinfo/actions?query=workflow%3A%22CI%22)
 
 ## Author
 
-Daniel Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
-
-The fileviewinfo package is placed into the public domain by Daniel Fandrich.
-See the file [COPYING](COPYING) for details of how CC0 applies to this file.
+Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
+Licensed under the MIT license (see the file [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details)
+with the exception of the files in testfiles/ which are hereby dedicated to the
+public domain in jurisdictions where such a dedication is legally permitted.
diff --git a/autodescribe b/autodescribe
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # autodescribe - automatically extract comments from files
-# Placed into the public domain by Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
-# See the file COPYING for details of how CC0 applies to this file.
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
+# Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE).
 
 # Print a shell-quoted version of the first argument
 shquote () {

diff --git a/autodescribe.1 b/autodescribe.1
@@ -289,5 +289,5 @@ See https://github.com/dfandrich/fileviewinfo/
 .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .SH COPYRIGHT
 .B autodescribe
-is placed into the public domain by Daniel Fandrich.
-See the file COPYING for details of how CC0 applies to this file.
+is Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>.
+Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE).
diff --git a/automtime b/automtime
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # automtime - automatically get modification time from internal file metadata
-# Placed into the public domain by Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
-# See the file COPYING for details of how CC0 applies to this file.
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
+# Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE).
 
 ###########################
 

diff --git a/automtime.1 b/automtime.1
@@ -253,5 +253,5 @@ See https://github.com/dfandrich/fileviewinfo/
 .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .SH COPYRIGHT
 .B automtime
-is placed into the public domain by Daniel Fandrich.
-See the file COPYING for details of how CC0 applies to this file.
+is Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>.
+Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE).
diff --git a/fv b/fv
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # fv - archive and package directory lister
-# Placed into the public domain by Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
-# See the file COPYING for details of how CC0 applies to this file.
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
+# Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE).
 #
 # Format of archive entries in this file:
 #

diff --git a/fv.1 b/fv.1
@@ -432,8 +432,8 @@ for displaying directories of MS-DOS archives.
 .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .SH COPYRIGHT
 .B fv
-is placed into the public domain by Daniel Fandrich.
-See the file COPYING for details of how CC0 applies to this file.
+is Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>.
+Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE).
 .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .B fv

diff --git a/fvi b/fvi
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # fvi - file metainformation lister
-# Placed into the public domain by Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
-# See the file COPYING for details of how CC0 applies to this file.
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
+# Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE).
 #
 # Format of file type entries in this file:
 #

diff --git a/fvi.1 b/fvi.1
@@ -374,5 +374,5 @@ See https://github.com/dfandrich/fileviewinfo/
 .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .SH COPYRIGHT
 .B fvi
-is placed into the public domain by Daniel Fandrich.
-See the file COPYING for details of how CC0 applies to this file.
+is Copyright (c) 2023 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>.
+Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE).