IANAL, but the GPL explicitly prescribes adding the header to every source
file to "most effectively state the exclusion of warranty".
If the legal guys can give the OK that we don't necessarily need that, then
we can definitely remove the notices and replace them with something
smaller.
*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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.
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