[legal-discuss] Adding license header to autogenerated content

Steve Martinelli s.martinelli at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 15:29:26 UTC 2016


I recently came across a patch [1] that is trying to add the Apache license
to an autogenerated file.

We've recently had issues with contributors finding patches that apply to
all the projects; this would definitely be one of those. My quick search
[2] is showing that around 350 repositories have the license in the file.
Out of the 1000+ we have in openstack (not including what's in
openstack-infra or openstack-dev)

Yes, it's a python file, there is some "code" there, but it's
auto-generated, either from sphinx or our cookiecutter (which now includes
the license [3]). So before we use up resources in merging a bunch of
patches, I wanted to know if the license was actually necessary.

Thanks for reading,
Steve

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/377170/1
[2]
http://codesearch.openstack.org/?q=Apache&i=nope&files=doc%2Fsource%2Fconf.py&repos=
[3]
https://github.com/openstack-dev/cookiecutter/blob/master/%7B%7Bcookiecutter.repo_name%7D%7D/doc/source/conf.py
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