On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 16:29 +0000, Greg Hill wrote: > I'm new, so I'm sure there's some history I'm missing, but I find it > bizarre that we have to put the same license into every single file of > source code in our projects. In my past experience, a single LICENSE > file at the root-level of the project has been sufficient to declare > the license chosen for a project. Github even has the capacity to > choose a license and generate that file for you, it's neat.
Take a look at this thread on legal-discuss last month: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/legal-discuss/2014-January/thread.html But yeah, as others say - per-file license headers help make the license explicit when it is copied to other projects. Mark. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev