It's nice when someone removes a file from the project. They get license information transmitted automatically without needing to do extra work.
> On Feb 5, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
