We'll have to justify that to the IPMC/mentors etc when we release - be
prepared for that.

A.

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Adrian Cole <[email protected]>wrote:

> Ignasi,
>
> I'm with you on this.  Let's have a follow-up pull request to strip
> comments inside scriptbuilder.
>
> -A
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Ignasi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I really don't like adding headers to script "fragments". I understand
> > the need to have a license header in a script, but when it comes to
> > compose them to produce one single file that will be copied to the
> > deployed nodes and then executed, then we'll end up with scripts with
> > the license headers at random parts.
> >
> > Script execution would not be affected, but reading the script and
> > seeing license texts here and there, IMHO gives a feeling of something
> > broken, or something that did not get properly generated.
> >
> > If we must add the license headers to the script fragments, I'd like
> > to consider modifying the scriptbuilder to strip comments.
> >
> > On 16 May 2013 22:11, Adrian Cole <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > cool. thanks
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Andrew Bayer <[email protected]
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> I changed a few places in src/test/resources to deal with
> scriptbuilder
> > >> functions that now spit out test headers - that's reasonable to me
> > being as
> > >> far as we go.
> > >>
> > >> A.
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Adrian Cole <[email protected]
> > >> >wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Fair enough.  I'll risk breaking folks to avoid perpetual
> > explanations :)
> > >> >
> > >> > So, the creativity clause seems to help justify lack of checking
> > >> > src/test/resource, which only includes test expectation data.  I'm
> > going
> > >> to
> > >> > make a call and continue to filter this out, as otherwise we'd have
> to
> > >> > change our unit tests to emit license headers.
> > >> >
> > >> > I'll take care of the src/main/resources things (like script
> > fragments)
> > >> in
> > >> > a separate commit as it will break unit tests.
> > >> >
> > >> > -A
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Andrew Bayer <
> [email protected]
> > >> > >wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > And fwiw, I already added headers to a bunch of .sh files to meet
> > RAT
> > >> > > checks.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > A.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 PM, David Nalley <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Adrian Cole <
> > >> [email protected]>
> > >> > > > wrote:
> > >> > > > > Hi, all.
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > per
> > >> https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/6#issuecomment-18022286
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > jclouds includes a utility called scriptbuilder, which
> generates
> > >> > shell
> > >> > > > > scripts from other fragments.  We've not added license headers
> > in
> > >> the
> > >> > > > past
> > >> > > > > as these scripts are combined at runtime.
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > Ex. you can imagine that doing a command like below, the
> > resulting
> > >> > > shell
> > >> > > > > script would senselessly have multiple ASF license headers
> > inlined.
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > runScript = new StatementList(installJDK, addRoot);
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > I seriously have objections about insisting adding license
> > headers
> > >> to
> > >> > > > > script fragments, not only from the efficiency concern, but
> also
> > >> that
> > >> > > it
> > >> > > > > adds a chance of hard-to-troubleshoot bugs.  For example, if
> we
> > >> added
> > >> > > > > license headers to the script fragment for nohup, everything
> > that
> > >> > uses
> > >> > > > > nohup will have an extra 14 lines of comments, or we'd have to
> > >> write
> > >> > > code
> > >> > > > > to remove it.  In cases where scriptBuilder is used as EC2
> > instance
> > >> > > data,
> > >> > > > > it might push us over the limit.
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > Bottom-line question is:
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > Does the ASF require license header on inputs to commands,
> such
> > as
> > >> > > shell
> > >> > > > > script fragments that are inputs to ScriptBuilder?
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > -A
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > So the default answer is that everything human-readable
> requires a
> > >> > > > license header.
> > >> > > > There is an exception, namely:
> > >> > > > http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-exceptions
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > I went and looked at some of the functions and while I might
> agree
> > >> > > > that something like abort.sh might qualify for the above
> > exception,
> > >> > > > something like setupPublicCurl.sh doesn't IMO.
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > Additionally - you'll have folks (mentors and other IPMC
> members)
> > >> > > > reviewing this and their purpose is to catch problems - so you
> (or
> > >> the
> > >> > > > release manager) will have to justify not including licenses
> > headers
> > >> > > > for each of those license-header-excluded files.
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > There has been a discussion on legal-discuss about adding a
> short
> > >> form
> > >> > > > license header for short files - that would be two comment lines
> > >> > > > instead of 16, but it is not established policy. Take a look at
> > that
> > >> > > > thread and at links from that file.
> > >> > > > http://markmail.org/thread/xvrxxkela4goxmk2
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > --David
> > >> > > >
> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > >>
> >
>

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