Hi Daniel... On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:11 AM, dsh <daniel.hais...@gmail.com> wrote: > @Mohammad: And btw, in reference to that big (blue) company, I'd say > your statement is hearsay and needs to be proofed. For instance why is > that very big (blue) company adding their own, proprietary license > header to such generated files and in one way or another even Java > files are Eclipse-generated in the beginning ;)
To be honest I don't remember correctly cause that was since before 2008, but I remember vaguely that I wanted to do something and I was not allowed to because of some rules related to this big (blue) company :D, so I thought it is better to bring that up again maybe someone already know more details or an answer > > Cheers > Daniel > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:07 AM, dsh <daniel.hais...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The more practical and pragmatic question to pose is: why would you >> want to add license headers to generated files. You would have to take >> care of that they won't disappear each time the file (e.g. .classpath) >> is getting re-generated. Again from a practical point of view a >> mentoring suggestion could be to suggest moving such configuration >> settings over to Maven over the course of time and let Maven generate >> the Eclipse project-specific files. >> >> Cheers >> Daniel >> >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din >> <nour.moham...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Marcel... >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Marcel Offermans >>> <marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> wrote: >>>> On Sep 14, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din >>>> <nour.moham...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Alexei Fedotov >>>>> <alexei.fedo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> 14.09.2012 3:46 пользователь "Mohammad Nour El-Din" <mn...@apache.org> >>>>>> написал: >>>>>>> One minor note: >>>>>>> - In [1] I noticed files related to Eclipse like .classpath and >>>>>>> .project, I am not sure that these files should be in a release tag. >>>>>>> Comments about that ? >>>>> >>>>> Well my concern was more like a question to raise here not actually >>>>> something to take on the project itself, to be honest I am not aware >>>>> about any rules that might prohibit that, but for at least most of the >>>>> projects I didn't see them committing IDE specific files into the >>>>> repository. Thats why I raised the question here to see what others >>>>> do. >>>> >>>> Since these are xml files and you can definitely edit them like other >>>> build files, I can't see any reason why they could not be part of a source >>>> release either. However, I do think they need a proper license header (the >>>> file I quickly checked [1] did not have that). I'm not aware of a way to >>>> tell Eclipse to add such headers automatically, so you might have to do >>>> that by hand or some script. >>> >>> But can we add ASL headers to files which are defined and considered >>> to be, even structure wise (please correct me if I am wrong), under >>> the license of Eclipse ? >>> >>> I really don't know I am also just raising a question here >>> >>> DETAILS: My concern here comes from information I learned when I was >>> working in a big company (not mentioning names here) and they had >>> their own development tools which are totally built based on Eclipse. >>> And IIRC even the files generated from these tools, also XML files and >>> such, were opt to some license some how. So IDK if the case hold here >>> as well or not >>> >>>> >>>> Greetings, Marcel >>>> >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/openmeetings/tags/2.0/.project >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks >>> - Mohammad Nour >>> ---- >>> "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" >>> - Albert Einstein >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
