+1, sure. Paulo Lieuthier
On 06/20/2015 11:53 AM, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > Hi list > > For a fairly long time I've been meaning for us to clean up our > license headers. They're currently all over the place - some files not > displaying the proper license, etc. > > As I was saying yesterday on IRC, what matters (unless *explicitly > specified*) is the license of the project, as specified in the > AUTHORS/COPYING/README file. > > To restore the order, I suggested a short, global license header which > would apply to *all* files and never change. It doesn't specify > copyright years, authors, anything like that - just redirects to an > AUTHORS file for authorship, and a LICENSE file for license text. > > This is something we've looked into and put in action previously for > the Pootle project. The *GPL license header is there to identify the > license for standalone distributed files. As most of our files in all > our projects are completely irrelevant standalone, we can explicitly > direct onlookers to other files without spelling everything out in the > file itself. > > This is the current proposal for the license header: > > /* > * Copyright (c) LXQt contributors. > * > * This file is part of the LXQt project. <http://lxqt.org> > * It is distributed under the LGPL 2.1 or later license. > * Please refer to the LICENSE file for a copy of the license, and > * the AUTHORS file for copyright and authorship information. > */ > > An initial PR, affecting just lxqt-about, was filed by @agaida here: > https://github.com/lxde/lxqt-about/pull/12 > > Please leave any comments, objections or +1s you may have there. If > you are a core contributor to LXQt please consider this a request, > it's important to have everybody's greenlight on this and we'd like to > land it asap (and in 0.10). > > As a personal note, this is a practice I'd like to see other projects > adopt. License headers are an ugly, unnecessary mess. They tend to be > outdated very quickly and are more often than not misleading. Shorter, > cleaner license headers that do not need to be updated are better for > everybody. > > J. Leclanche ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
