The README.md is actually an example where the license header does not make
sense. I don't see it having one in other projects, neither did I see it
for .txt files for the few cases I checked.

Any feedback from mentors?


On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Chetan Narsude <[email protected]>
wrote:

> It's the same though I had when I looked at it; I thought consistency
> across apache projects could be driving it. Is it not true?
>
> --
> Chetan
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:02 PM, York, Brennon <
> [email protected]
> > wrote:
>
> > I don¹t want to be pedantic here, but, according to Apache, I¹d *only*
> > keep license headers out of .txt files if they contain "without any
> degree
> > of creativity in either its literal elements or its structure². That
> said,
> > I¹d, at a minimum, put a license header on every README.md file and
> review
> > the rest. More work, but I¹d say its worth it. I only saw one .txt file
> > (xyz.txt) in the PR that wasn¹t a README.md so might be a quick fix.
> >
> > Just my 2c.
> >
> > On 9/24/15, 11:41 AM, "Thomas Weise" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >Yes, please see my comments on that pull request.
> > >
> > >https://github.com/apache/incubator-apex-core/pull/69
> > >
> > >Can you please remove the changes that add the outdated license header
> so
> > >that I can pull it in and rebase this?
> > >
> > >On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Chetan Narsude <
> [email protected]>
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> There is a pending pull request from me which fixes all this from me
> > >>since
> > >> yesterday afternoon.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Chetan
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Thomas Weise <
> [email protected]>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Thanks for the review!
> > >> >
> > >> > The duplicate headers in *.java are caused by leading blank lines,
> > >>which
> > >> we
> > >> > need to remove to make the automated formatting work. My idea is
> that
> > >>we
> > >> > first do those tweaks and then update everything with the final
> > >>header.
> > >> See
> > >> > also #69
> > >> >
> > >> > I'm actually in favor of excluding .txt files from header
> formatting.
> > >> Other
> > >> > thoughts on this?
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Brennon York
> > >><[email protected]>
> > >> > wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > @tweise <https://github.com/tweise> went through all the files
> and
> > >> > marked
> > >> > > each file below if I saw some sort of issue (whether you already
> > >>know
> > >> > about
> > >> > > it or not :) )
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Below are a list of the files I noticed that, after running this,
> > >>would
> > >> > > have two licenses (i.e. we should reformat rather than add new
> > >>licenses
> > >> > on
> > >> > > these):
> > >> > >
> > >> > >    - Name.java
> > >> > >    - VarInt.java
> > >> > >    - SingleMetricAggregator.java
> > >> > >    - DoubleSumAggregator.java
> > >> > >    - LongSumAggregator.java
> > >> > >    - AppDataSource.java
> > >> > >    - Slider.java
> > >> > >    - CompactAnnotationNode.java
> > >> > >    - CompactFieldNode.java
> > >> > >    - FieldSignatureVisitor.java
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Do we need a License header for a README as well (best I found as
> > >> > guidance
> > >> > > on this is here
> > >> > > <http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-exceptions>?
> > >> > >
> > >> > >    - engine/src/main/resources/webapps/stram/README.txt
> > >> > >    -
> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > >>
> >
> >>engine/src/test/resources/testConfigPackage/testConfigPackageSrc/files/xy
> > >>z.txt
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Not sure if this one should have the license moved up one line to
> be
> > >> > below
> > >> > > the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > >> > >
> > >> > >    - engine/src/test/resources/dt-site.xml
> > >> > >
> > >> > > We don't need a license here I'm assuming as it already has the
> > >>license
> > >> > > from Apache Hadoop
> > >> > >
> > >> > >    - engine/src/test/resources/yarn-site.xml
> > >> > >
> > >> > > ‹
> > >> > > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
> > >> > > <
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-apex-core/pull/73#issuecomment-142971
> > >>005
> > >> > >
> > >> > > .
> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > >>
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