On 6 February 2012 11:16, Ate Douma <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/06/2012 10:51 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> >> Sorry no time right now. > > > Same here. But I do intent to follow up later today with more feedback, not > just on this. > > >> >> I have been thinking about this and it really makes no sense to have >> license headers in there for the reason Scott gives, plus there is no >> IP value in those files. > > That is the primary question. > If there is no IP value, there is no need, nor requirement, to have a > license header on top.
... > For the time being, if (all) the current templates indeed do not have IP > value, I wouldn't worry about them and just add them to the RAT exclusions > configuration. Ate (via general@) list said: "Seems to me this has been asked and answered before: http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-exceptions"; Which is the clearest answer we can hope for. It fully supports Ate's recommendation here. Ross
