Hello, whiskers In order to get Apache release policy compliance, we need to add license headers to every source file in the distributions with few exceptions. I'd like to share what I have done and what I'm going to do with you.
"With few exceptions, all human-readable Apache-developed files that are included within a distribution must include the header text." Quoted from http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html I use Apache Rat to audit license headers. I use wskdeploy repo as the trial repo. I reported an issue (https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-wskdeploy/issues/716) to wskdeploy including a report generated by Apache Rat. In the report, all the files with unapproved licenses will be listed. Then I submit a PR (https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-wskdeploy/pull/709) to add Apache license headers. I'm going to do same to all the other projects in OpenWhisk community. Matt Rutkowski offers help to this work too. As to the exceptions, I followed the document in http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-exceptions to decide which files can be excluded. In wskdeploy project, they are: # files copied from third parties or created by tools gradlew gradlew.bat Godeps i18n_resources.go # JSON data file doesn't support annotation .*json # Test data # others .gitignore .rat-excludes Different repo may have a different exception list. The exception list can be tracked by .rat-excludes in the root folder ( refer to https://github.com/daisy-ycguo/incubator-openwhisk-wskdeploy/blob/add_lice/.rat-excludes ) If you have comments or suggestions to my work or to the exception list, feel free to discuss here. I'm open for any inputs. Thank you. Best regards Ying Chun Guo (Daisy)
