Hello,

Do we really need license headers for test data?

I see all these small xml/text/properties files used to test code and they
have nothing of any significance, they are just there to test some
situation.

The way I see http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-exceptions

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.


Also, could we at least use the short form
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#is-a-short-form-of-the-source-header-available
for some of the test data?

Sometimes the situation of a file is such that the recommended Apache
> source header is not appropriate. Examples would be within images, minified
> JavaScript or PDFs. In those cases, the following shorter form may be used.


> "Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
> contributor license agreements; and to You under the Apache License,
> Version 2.0. "


--emi

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