Yeah, that's for lawyers. :-) On 1/18/2019 9:30 AM, Christofer Dutz wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Well if you set the Inception-Year in the pom, > maven generates this line in the generated artifacts. > I have never seen the year appear in every file header. > > Chris > > > > Am 18.01.19, 15:28 schrieb "Kevin A. McGrail" <[email protected]>: > > On 1/18/2019 9:17 AM, Christofer Dutz wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > as I was setting up things so Jenkins will build the project, I noticed > that you have some strange plugin in the build that enforces headers quite > strictly. > > I don’t have any objections to that, however it marked my usual ASF > headers as invalid because they didn’t have the first line in them. > > > > Currently your header looks like this: > > > > Copyright © 2019 Apache IoTDB(incubating) ([email protected]) > > > > Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one > > or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file > > distributed with this work for additional information > > regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file > > to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the > > "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance > > with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at > > > > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 > > > > Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software > > distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, > > WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. > > See the License for the specific language governing permissions and > > limitations under the License. > > > > I would strongly suggest to remove the first line. It’s equivalent can > be automatically generated by a maven plugin and the way it is, I think it > would require changing each file in the repo every year. I doubt this is what > you want to do. > > > > What do you others think? (Especially the other mentors) > > > > Chris > > I would defer to VP Legal to see what they say. > > At my firm, we always use 4 elements: > The Copyright Symbol > The Year of the Creation > The Name of the Author > A Rights Statement > > For example, Copyright © 1997-2019 Peregrine Computer Consultants > Corporation. > All Rights Reserved. > > Regards, > > KAM > > -- > Kevin A. McGrail > VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation > Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project > https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 > > >
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