Re: [python-uk] copyright info in source

[Doug Winter]

You can't just put stuff in the public domain unfortunately, it's all a very grey area.  Also this is very poorly drafted. If you put this statement in a file called UNLICENSE alongside your code then it would be pretty much meaningless in most jurisdictions. Cheers, Doug. On 08/10/13 07:27, Jonathan Hartley wrote: I approve of the sentiment, but it seems to me that the unlicense is most definitely a LICENSE. Putting legal terms and conditions, or waiver of same, into a differently named file, seems a step too far. Nevertheless, sounds cool to me, I'll read up and consider using it. Thanks! On 06/10/13 22:45, Harry Percival wrote: apologies for resurrecting a dead thread, but i came across this license and was impressed: http://unlicense.org/ On 12 September 2013 20:08, John Lee <j...@pobox.com> wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Jonathan Hartley wrote: [...] I've seen it done in a special "coding style test suite" (that gets run along with all the other tests).  Slightly nicer than a push hook IMO because you see it earlier and because it works the same way as all your other automated tests of your code.  There was a bit of special code so that you got one failure per coding style violation I think (including one per missing copyright statement), but those are bonus points. Maybe somebody has written a test runner plugin that does that? My quick searches didn't turn one up, though there is this, which could easily be adapted (not a plugin, and looks like it wants to be) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12227443/is-there-a-plugin-for-pylint-and-pyflakes-for-nose-tests John _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk I don't think it should be a test runner plugin, so much as just a test. Maybe a big common utility function (in a pypi package) which a tiny custom test function can then call to parametrize it for your project. That works.  The reason I suggested a plugin was so that plugin hooks can give the coding style check function the modules (and scripts) on which to operate. John _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk -- ------------------------------ Harry J.W. Percival ------------------------------ Twitter: @hjwp Mobile:  +44 (0) 78877 02511 Skype:         harry.percival _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk -- Jonathan Hartley tart...@tartley.com http://tartley.com Made of meat. +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk -- Telephone: +44 1904 567330, Mobile: +44 7879 423002 Switchboard: +44 1904 567349, Fax: +44 20 79006980 Post: Tower House, Fishergate, York, YO10 4UA, UK Registered in England. Company No 5171172. VAT GB843570325. Registered Address: Tower House, Fishergate, York, YO10 4UA

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