Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > In a recent blog post ( http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6867 ) ESR writes:
> High on my list of Things That Annoy Me When I Hack is sourcefiles that >> contain huge blobs of license text at the top. That is valuable territory >> which should be occupied by a header comment explaining the code, not a >> boatload of boilerplate that I’ve seen hundreds of times before. > ...and then goes on to explain using SPDX identifiers to refer to licenses, > which would look something like this: > /* Copyright 2015 by XYZ > * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ > */ > Any objections to making that the new standard / replacing existing blocks > with this? It would make the PHP files a little more readable. The GPL explicitly recommends (cf. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl#howto): | […] | To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is | safest to attach them to the start of each source file to | most effectively state the exclusion of warranty; and each | file should have at least the “copyright” line and a pointer | to where the full notice is found. | <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> | Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> | | This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or | (at your option) any later version. | | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | GNU General Public License for more details. | | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | […] I don't see a good reason to deviate from the licence cre- ator's advice. Source code files in any language will al- ways have recurring elements which will be uninteresting to someone who needs to read or edit /other/ parts of them. Tim _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
