Le 27/10/2015 10:44, Gergo Tisza a écrit :
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.
Hello,
I would not bother mass editing source files. It is imho a waste of
time. I think we standardized the MediaWiki core files at one point to
include the recommended GPL headers. The commit history should have
such trace.
A few other projects I contribute to, do include a long header in files
even for MIT/Apache 2 license.
Overall I don't think we have to implement every nitpick the blogosphere
can come up with.
+1. As far as bikesheds go, this is a silly one.
Some people think that having the big header helps in case someone
just copies a single source file from your repo and reuses it
vertibram somewhere else. Others think its super-redundant and kind of
ugly. Not that different from arguments about proper whitespace in
code files.
Lets just stick with what we have.
--
-bawolff