Not all developers are visiting irc, and this should probably get
announced anyways, so here I go :)
Apache Software Foundation's legal policy is to add a license header to
every source file created within ASF project or donated to it:
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html
Recently, work has been taken to adopt all our codebase to this
requirement, but our software is constantly being developed and as such,
we need to take care of this all the time. Therefore, all developers are
asked to add a license header, as specified in the link above, to the
code they are contributing.
This isn't a big deal and as long as you have CLA filed, someone else
may fix that for you later. However, by adding a header, you make it
clear that you're willing to license your code under Apache License and
that you yourself solidify that willingness :)
Be aware that this applies ONLY to code written under CLA, or
contributed with clearly stated will do donate the code to ASF project
(the latter usually happend with one-time donations, e.g. minor
patches). Do not, under any circumstances, add license header to a 3rd
party code, and do not replace any license headers already available in
the 3rd party code. These sources are to be left as-is and, if they are
licensed at all, mentioned in the LICENSE file with their license copied
there. Read the ASF legal doc linked above, look at LICENSE and NOTICE
files to get an impression of how it's done. When in doubt, ask here on
the mailing list - I'm no expert but after reading a ton of ASF
guideline documents and legal team's JIRA tickets, I may be of some
help. And other devs may be more knowledgeable.
Cheers,
Peter
