This is a good idea to follow some standard. However, SPDX meta tag "SPDX-License-Identifier" is not yet widely used.
It seems that it was firstly used by U-boot project https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi/commit/1a4596601fd395f3afb8f82f3f840c5e00bdd57a AFAICT it is still under draft proposal: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Technical_Team/SPDX_Meta_Tags http://www.fossology.org/issues/6051 So the idea is good to try to comply with SPDX, and if we agree with this early adoption, then here would be the new header: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-# Copyright 2015 <company or author> # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3 # For license see __openerp__.py or http://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0 With author and contributors in __openerp__.py And I'm not sure about what to put or not in __openerp__.py and weither or not we should keep the pointer to __openerp__.py Nevertheless, as our modules can be downloaded from apps.odoo.com, and thus it wouldn't include root LICENSE file, we do need to keep __openerp__.py as it or to include LICENSE file at module level. 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/ On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Jerry Van Baren <gvb.open...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/05/2015 06:09 AM, Yannick Vaucher wrote: > > 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] > > [snip] > > 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. > > Suggestion: switch to the SPDX notation on as the license note in the > header of the files. This achieves minimal footprint in a machine and human > recognizable format using a standard format (for some definition of > standard). > > Random(ish) example: cmd_fdt.c > <http://git.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=common/cmd_fdt.c;h=dc59fab8280dc57f0ae546ad552215dea0d99774;hb=HEAD> > > References: > > - http://spdx.org/about-spdx > - http://spdx.org/licenses/ > - http://spdx.org/SPDX-specifications/spdx-version-1.2 > > 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] > > Agreed, but I would use the SPDX notation in the header to make it > standard(ish) and scannable. > > > 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/ > > > Best regards, > gvb > > _______________________________________________ > 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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