Most developers dislike redundancy, thus, all are tempted to reduce the size of source code by reducing or completly removing redundant license from source files. [1]
Moreover, when writing a module you often have py files with only few lines, thus the header takes a lot of place. I think it is time to write down what we can and cannot do about AGPL license. Actual common use is to attach the full header at start of each source file. This is what is recommended by http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html To be said I'm completely against removing completely the header I think a minimal copyright must be present in each source file to be read by the one who opens the file. To be minimalist, from what I read there thought, we could also accept minimal header with license like this # Copyright 2015 <author> # <notice where to find full licence> (with full license in __openerp__.py for exemple) Exemple here [2] Our options: a. We keep full header on each source file. And accept only this one. b. We define a minimal header template like this as an altenative (mostly taken from David Beal's proposal): # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # Author: <author name> # Copyright 2015 <company or author> # License AGPL version 3 or later # See license in __openerp__.py or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt [1] More talks about it in: https://github.com/OCA/product-attribute/pull/34 [2] An exemple of minimal license: https://github.com/OCA/carrier-delivery/pull/35/files Cheers, Yannick Vaucher Business Solutions Software Developer Camptocamp SA PSE A, CH-1015 Lausanne Phone: +41 21 619 10 30 Office: +41 21 619 10 10 http://www.camptocamp.com/
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