> OTOH if there's a good reason (such as "makes the product better") to omit license headers for a category of files that's easy to identify and does not have creative content, it's possible to make a documented decision to omit those headers.
I believe most *.template files qualify here, that's why I've been excluding them from Rat in every module I've reviewed. --emi On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Neil C Smith > <[email protected]> wrote: >> ...Would it not be better if all template files were explicitly public >> domain if we want end users to have full control of the license for the >> resulting file?... > > As an Apache project, NetBeans cannot release public domain files, the > Apache License is one of our strongest invariants. > > OTOH if there's a good reason (such as "makes the product better") to > omit license headers for a category of files that's easy to identify > and does not have creative content, it's possible to make a documented > decision to omit those headers. > > -Bertrand
