many thanks for the swift clarification. On 16/10/06, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/16/06, Pete Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are preparing for a release of Tuscany C++ and have run the aRat tool. > This has thrown up some files that are part of our tests that do not include > ASL headers. These files are expected output of tests, for example, we > serialize a SDO to an xml file and compare the output file with the > "expected result" file to verify the test passed. So... adding licence > headers to these files is a bit of a pain as the code would never generate > the header as part of it's serialization! yeh - aRat does raise false positives and the results need interpretation > So my questions: > > 1. Do these files require headers? i regard files containing expected results such as these as binary. > 2. As an alternative, is it ok to add a NOTICE file to the directory > containing these files listing them as licenced? a README or a NOTICE in the directory is not necessary but would be a good idea. documentation is good and saves having to answer questions about why they don't have a header. if this file is in some reasonable format which RAT could read then they could be automatically marked as binaries and ignored by RAT for the future. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Pete
