2007/8/7, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 8/6/07, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > *sigh* Sometimes the ASF overhead can be such a pain... The headers > > are fine when you use an IDE, but when you use vi, it means scrolling > > down the 50 or whatever lines every time, which is so annoying. > > I agree with Don. Injecting all the licensing falderah into example > applications accomplishes no clear purpose. It's just licensing OCD.
Sorry for the ignorance, OCD=Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? Ah ok I got the irony :-) Maybe it's simply paranoia :-P As a matter of law, the license in the root of the distribution covers > everything. > We reiterate headers in the source files just in case they are > separated from the distribution. In source code, when patent issues > and other concerns might be involved, embedding the copyright and > license might conceivably make a difference, somewhere, sometime. > (Though, I expect the scenarios remain far fetched.) I agree with you, Ted: I think that the license headers are not useful at all. But I don't think this is the place for such a discussion, since I think that it should be decided at a "foundation-level". I think that, if we remove the license headers from example, we are outlaw in Apache sense of the term. We could discuss to change the law, but not in Struts mailing lists. Antonio
