COPYING file refers to a project via invalid URL

[mbrukman]

The COPYING file contains the following lines:

glog/COPYING

Lines 31 to 33 in a8e0007

	A function gettimeofday in utilities.cc is based on
	http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#dR3YEbitojA/COPYING&q=GetSystemTimeAsFileTime%20license:bsd

However, this URL is a link to Code Search which is no longer functional, so it returns a 404:

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#dR3YEbitojA/COPYING&q=GetSystemTimeAsFileTime%20license:bsd

Would it be possible to replace it with a direct URL to the original project?

[sergiud]

Thanks. Could you submit a PR with the updated URL?

[mbrukman]

@sergiud -- sorry, I don't know what URL that is supposed to point to, otherwise I would have provided an updated URL. The search query is opaque, and as I was not involved in this project early on, I don't know which project this is referring to.

Looks like there's similar text is in the utilities.cc file:

glog/src/utilities.cc

Lines 203 to 204 in a8e0007

	// Based on: http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#dR3YEbitojA/os_win32.c&q=GetSystemTimeAsFileTime%20license:bsd
	// See COPYING for copyright information.

which says this comes from a file named os_win32.c; if we search for that, we find:

• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/wpa_supplicant_8/+/refs/heads/lollipop-dev/src/utils/os_win32.c

so maybe the os_get_time() function is the source of gettimeofday in this repo? Though that's obviously not the original location of that code.

Maybe this is it: https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/src/utils/os_win32.c#n26 ?

Again, someone more familiar with the history of this project would have to confirm and make the determination; I don't have any insight into this; I just found the above from a little searching and browsing of the code, so it may also be incorrect, as these are just my guesses.

[sergiud]

Thanks for the information.

The corresponding code will be replaced by standard functionality in #1020. Therefore, the copyright passage will be removed altogether.