OK, pushed these through, though not 'binaries-list' yet. https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/commit/a5e617426051ea4baa2ac5aaefeb6e2b78161ca5
Gj On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <[email protected]> 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 < > > [email protected]> 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 > >> >
