Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > I would like to support all this. Whitespace is not a minor issue. > > Inconsistencies wreak havoc on CVS diffs. It seems that some > > text editors try to correct these inconsistencies (e.g. to change > > any 3-space indentation back to 2-space indentation) which results > > in an unnecessary and confusing diff. > > > > * The main license has 2-space indentation which is great. However > > some lines have an odd number of spaces, e.g. the first line here > > incorrectly has 3 spaces while the second line correctly has 6 spaces. > > The entire license has 3-space indentation, except where indentation > is being used to show hierarchy. My editor does not suffer from the > problem you describe and I do not expect anyone else to be editing > the license text (at least not with a broken editor).
The reason for my comments about inconsistent whitespace is that we have seen big troubles in CVS with the license header at the top of *.java files etc. Some people have text editors that have capabilities to automatically "correct" whitespace and this causes mangled diffs. --David
