I see perfect to reduce the overhead of the headers, because it's a nonsense, so I would say option b, but a recurring conflicting issue is about the copyright: this part doesn't reflect at all the reality of the code because:
- People copy/paste from Odoo code and let Odoo copyright, which is not correct. - Author put its copyright, but contributors (that can exceed the LOC contributed from the author), doesn't remember to put its name in it. - BTW, it's very tedious to maintain this section for each file. Why don't we just simply remove it? Copyright can be deduced from Git history. I know that FSF recommends to put it, but it's that, only a recommendation, not a must for AGPL. Regards. 2015-01-05 12:09 GMT+01:00 Yannick Vaucher <yannick.vauc...@camptocamp.com>: > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community > Post to : openerp-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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