In a recent blog post (
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6867 ) ESR writes:
High on my list of Things That Annoy Me When I Hack is sourcefiles that
contain huge blobs of license text at the top. That is
valuable territory
which should be occupied by a header comment explaining the code, not a
boatload of boilerplate that I’ve seen hundreds of times before.
...and then goes on to explain using SPDX identifiers to refer to licenses,
which would look something like this:
/* Copyright 2015 by XYZ
* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
*/
Any objections to making that the new standard / replacing existing blocks
with this? It would make the PHP files a little more readable.