On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Rich Bowen wrote:
I have often thought it would be very very nice if the source files could reference the license, and tell you where to get it, rather than including the full text. This hugely increases the size of everything, and provides no real benefit. If each file could reference a file (included in the distribution) and a URL, surely that would be sufficient? What is the rationale for the full text in each and every file?
Just for the record, my quick unscientific poll shows that the license consumes approximately 6.7M in the httpd-2.0 distribution. But I suspect that compresses well! ;-)
Scientific method: LICENSE is 22998 bytes. The text of the license appears in 293 files, including the LICENSE file itself.
Huh, are you sure?
wget apache.org/LICENSE 100%[====================================>] 2,827
ll -rw-rw-r-- 1 erik erik 2827 Sep 22 2001 LICENSE
2827 bytes * 293 files = 828311 bytes / 1024 = 808,9kb !
The 22kb LICENSE you mentioned is the full-blown text (located at httpd-2.0/LICENSE) which includes all subcomponents' licenses but the source files only include the *Apache Software License* not that of the other comps...
so we get 808,9kb for the source files plus the license (22998/1024=22,5kb) itself: ~ 831,4kb
hehe, really cute compared to 6,7M :->
cheers, Erik
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