[Incubator] PyWPS copyright and license headers requirement

[Tom Kralidis]

Jody: thanks for the info.  So to clarify, having a copyright and
license header in source code files is a hard requirement correct?

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> We had a clarifications via OSGeo legal in August. I shared it with the
> mailing list here and wrote a geotools blog post (which was the project
> seeking clarification). GeoServer, and I expect other OSGeo project will
> match this policy over time as is less work.
>
> http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/geotools-header-policy-updated.html
>
> https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/Updates-to-Copyright-Header-Policy
>
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP%20147
>
> Do you have any questions?
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:44 AM Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all: we are discussing the requirement of copyright/license headers
>> as part of PyWPS incubation [1] and as a result looking for clarification.
>>
>> The FAQ in [2] says that we need this for every source file.  While I
>> fully agree with this practice there are questions and examples of
>> other 'serious' (<- my word :) projects which do not adhere to this, like
>> the Django project (e.g. in [3]).
>>
>> Thoughts?  Am I (aside from my personal preference of always having these
>> headers) interpreting this requirement incorrectly?  If not, is there
>> background/context which roots the requirement?
>>
>> Please advise.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> ..Tom
>>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/geopython/pywps/issues/187
>> [2] http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/codereview.html
>> [3]
>> https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/db/models/__init__.py
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