On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 16:29 +0000, Greg Hill wrote: > I'm new, so I'm sure there's some history I'm missing, but I find it bizarre > that we have to put the same license into every single file of source code in > our projects.
Meh, probably just habit and copy/paste behavior. > In my past experience, a single LICENSE file at the root-level of the > project has been sufficient to declare the license chosen for a project. Agreed, and the git history is enough to figure out who worked on a particular file. But, there's been many discussions about this topic over the years, and it's just not been a priority, frankly. > Github even has the capacity to choose a license and generate that file for > you, it's neat. True, but we don't use GitHub :) We only only use it as a mirror for Gerrit. Best, -jay _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
