Github user Humbedooh commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-ponymail/pull/56
Thank you for providing a factual link, Justin. This gives us some real
data to assess.
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-exceptions however states
that:
~~~
Other files may make sense to have no license header. Three examples are:
Short informational text files; for example README, INSTALL files. The
expectation is that these files make it obvious which product they relate to.
Test data for which the addition of a source header would cause the
tests to fail.
'Snippet' files that are combined as form a larger file where the
larger file would have duplicate licensing headers.
~~~
I would argue that the vast majority of these files (which are
readme/install text files) and the configuration snippets fall under these
categories.
We're not talking API reference docs here, this is purely files relating to
the installation of the program as well as configuration snippets meant to be
added to a larger configuration.
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