[Incubator] PyWPS copyright and license headers requirement

[Tom Kralidis]

Thanks for the clarification. I imagine the FAQ will be updated over time.

Thanks

..Tom

On Wed, 21 Sep 2016, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:59:12 +0000
> From: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> To: Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com>
> Cc: "incubator at lists.osgeo.org" <incubator at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Incubator] PyWPS copyright and license headers requirement
> 
> 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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