Correct. Really makes no sense to add copyright headers to META-INF/ files. Some are autogenerated but the manually created ones have only a few lines pointing to a classname.
binaries-list is also obvious. --emi On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > When these are added to the exclusions: > > <exclude name="**/*.pass" /> > <exclude name="**/*.pass2" /> > <exclude name="**/*.list" /> > <exclude name="**/src/META-INF/**" /> > <exclude name="**/binaries-list" /> > > ...the Rat report lists 6540 problematic files, instead of 9164, which is > the current number. > > Gj > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Geertjan Wielenga < > geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Following on from the additional Rat excludes by jlahoda: >> >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/4 >> >> I'd like to propose several others be excluded via Rat, since these are >> IMHO files "without any degree of creativity" ( >> https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html) and thus do not require a >> license header: >> >> - .list files >> - META-INF/services files >> - .pass files >> - binaries-list files >> >> The above are all documented here with the question whether they have any >> degree of creativity: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/ >> NetBeans+Transition+Process >> >> They're all simple registration files of one type or another and do not >> qualify IMHO as having any degree of creativity. >> >> Comments? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Gj >>
