[Incubator] PyWPS copyright and license headers requirement

[Jody Garnett]

It is not a requirement at all. There is an advantage to listing the
license at the top of each file.

Can you read the links provided again and tell me what I can do to be more
clear?
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:34 PM Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> > Jody Garnett
>
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