On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 07:05:50PM +0200, Christopher Lenz wrote: > BUGS, CHANGES, THANKS: > "Notice, license, etc" files that RAT apparently doesn't recognize
Yes, these can be considered plain text documentation. > configure, Makefile.in, Makefile, etc: > Files that were generated by autotools in the build process Yes, we have no choice with these. > There are some config template files (such as couch.app.tpl.in or etc/ > default/couchdb.tpl.in) that I'm not entirely sure about. Mostly they'd > fall under the "not really creative work" category, and some of them > don't even allow comments IIUC. Yes, configuration files are hardly creative works. As these should be edited by the end user, slapping a legal notice (where syntacticly allowed) would be bad. Thanks, -- Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/
