Hi all,
I was reviewing the RAT reports, preparing the release of tiles-autotag
(among others), and this question came up.
What kind of header should we put on the files generated by autotag?
* Right now, we're putting nothing: during unit test, we compare the
generated files to templates and RAT complains about those templates
missing headers.
* If I add the ASL header to those templates, then it will appear in the
files generated by our users with autotag. But can we claim copyright of
the generated files?
* I can also configure the RAT plugin to ignore those templates. But we
do claim copyright of the templates, don't we?
So I'm wondering. I'm considering adding a header that says the file is
generated, and claims copyright of the generator.
Is there a best practice about this kind of situation at Apache?
Nick.
