Hi, Thank you for your explanation.
Junichi 2017-10-11 17:01 GMT+09:00 Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > There's been a number of discussions around this, here's my position > as an incubation mentor. > > 1. The ASF's policy for license headers is at > https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html > > 2. As mentioned there, headers are not required for files "without any > degree of creativity in either its literal elements or its structure" > > 3. Such exceptions should be defined in a single place to be practical > - I suppose that's NetBean's main or parent pom > > 4. The fewer special cases the better, as those need to be reviewed > for each release - and discussions about special cases might be more > effort than just adding the headers. > > 5. If tools provided by NetBeans generate code, the result should > obviously *not* contain an Apache license header. I suppose user > settings can define which header the current user wants, if any. > > 6. If 5. is problematic for some types of templates, it's fine to add > a temporary exception for those templates, covered by a jira ticket > that describes the problem and gives it a unique ID. Fixing that would > be low priority but I think it should still be considered as a bug. > > Hope this helps clarify things and happy to answer any questions. > > -Bertrand
