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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Thanks for the heads up Steve and Jeremy, I have two such changes in Trove that I’ve marked similarly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>https://review.openstack.org/#/c/384048/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>https://review.openstack.org/#/c/384030/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>These changes seem to come from the same production-line approach to changes that are producing quite a lot of churn with very little real advancement of the projects in question. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>-amrith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Steve Martinelli [mailto:s.martinelli@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 20, 2016 12:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com><br><b>Cc:</b> legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [legal-discuss] Adding license header to autogenerated content<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for your reply Richard, I'll recommend the author abandon the patch.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Richard Fontana <<a href="mailto:rfontana@redhat.com" target="_blank">rfontana@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:15:37AM -0400, Steve Martinelli wrote:<br>> any chance legal can chime in on the original question?<br><br>FWIW, I agree with you and Jeremy.<br><span style='color:#888888'><br><span class=hoenzb>Richard</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><br><br><br><br>><br>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Steve Martinelli <<a href="mailto:s.martinelli@gmail.com">s.martinelli@gmail.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>><br>> > Thanks for the reply Jeremy, that was my instinct too. I'll keep my -2 on<br>> > the review in question, but I'll wait for legal to chime in before asking<br>> > the author to abandon the patch.<br>> ><br>> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Jeremy Stanley <<a href="mailto:fungi@yuggoth.org">fungi@yuggoth.org</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> >> On 2016-09-27 11:29:26 -0400 (-0400), Steve Martinelli wrote:<br>> >> > I recently came across a patch [1] that is trying to add the Apache<br>> >> license<br>> >> > to an autogenerated file.<br>> >> [...]<br>> >> > [1] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/377170/1" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/377170/1</a><br>> >> [...]<br>> >><br>> >> If there is a license to that file, then it's almost certainly a BSD<br>> >> license (derived from Sphinx's quickstart.py):<br>> >><br>> >> <a href="https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/master/sphinx/quickstart.py" target="_blank">https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/master/sphinx/quickstart.py</a><br>> >><br>> >> I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not keen on adding licenses to<br>> >> autogenerated (e.g. non-source) files where the original authors of<br>> >> the generator didn't design it to emit a license in its output to<br>> >> begin with. I would argue that the copy in our cookiecutter repo, as<br>> >> a derivative of the sphinx-quickstart output, should probably never<br>> >> have started out with an Apache license header in the first place (I<br>> >> wonder whether it was added to satisfy "Python scripts without a<br>> >> declared license" checks in one of our static analyzers?).<br>> >> --<br>> >> Jeremy Stanley<br>> >><br>> >> _______________________________________________<br>> >> legal-discuss mailing list<br>> >> <a href="mailto:legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org">legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org</a><br>> >> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-discuss</a><br>> >><br>> ><br>> ><br><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> legal-discuss mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org">legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>