README/NOTICE/LICENSE/DISCLAIMER files can all be added to the exclude list for 
the rat-plugin. 

There will be similar cases for various binary files ( logos for example ) too.

thanks
— Hitesh

On Sep 24, 2015, at 1:02 PM, Amol Kekre <[email protected]> wrote:

> To get mentors immediate attention, we should be putting [MENTORS] in the
> subj of the email. I am not sure how to do that within gmail
> 
> Thks
> Amol
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Thomas Weise <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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 Can you please remove the changes that add the outdated license header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
>>>>>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>> 
>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-apex-core/pull/73#issuecomment-142971
>>>>>> 005
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> .
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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