So... I added the license headers to the checked-in code, but got around the issue you describe by adding logic to strip out the license headers when creating a plugin. See https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/commit/921dad392a.
Tim -----Original Message----- From: Jesse [mailto:purplecabb...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 2:21 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Should files in cordova-lib/templates have license headers? What specific files? The problem that I have is with adding license headers to template files is that it *may* imply that the developer's app must be APL 2.0, these typically are 'sample' files and the user is expected to change them ... but expecting them to remove a license header as their first change is kinda weird. @purplecabbage risingj.com On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > We should add license headers. > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Tim Barham <tim.bar...@microsoft.com> > wrote: > > > Currently these files are flagged by RAT. We should either add > > license headers or exclude them (from RAT) to clean up the noise. > > They're small pieces of template code used by plugman. The Apache > > rules for whether a file needs to have a license header [1] specifies: > > > > > What files in an Apache release do not require a license header? > > > A file without any degree of creativity in either its literal > > > elements > or > > > its structure is not protected by copyright law; therefore, such a > > > file does not require a license header. If in doubt about the > > > extent of the file's creativity, add the license header to the file. > > > > I don't think it could be argued that these files have *no* > > creativity what-so-ever, so perhaps we should add license headers? > > > > [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html > > > > Tim > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > > > >
