[Incubator] PyWPS copyright and license headers requirement

[Jody Garnett]

I expect you were finding the incubation faq? do you have a link to any
page that led you astray?

Here was the blog post I was looking for:

-
http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.ca/2016/07/copyright-headers-in-source-code-files.html

That should be super clear :)

--
Jody Garnett

On 21 September 2016 at 08:21, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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-Copyrig
>>> ht-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/model
>>> s/__init__.py
>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
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