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It's nice when someone removes a file from the project. They get license information transmitted automatically without needing to do extra work. 

> On Feb 5, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 16:29 +0000, Greg Hill wrote:
>> I'm new, so I'm sure there's some history I'm missing, but I find it bizarre that we have to put the same license into every single file of source code in our projects.
> 
> Meh, probably just habit and copy/paste behavior.
> 
>>  In my past experience, a single LICENSE file at the root-level of the project has been sufficient to declare the license chosen for a project.
> 
> Agreed, and the git history is enough to figure out who worked on a
> particular file. But, there's been many discussions about this topic
> over the years, and it's just not been a priority, frankly.
> 
>> Github even has the capacity to choose a license and generate that file for you, it's neat.
> 
> True, but we don't use GitHub :) We only only use it as a mirror for
> Gerrit.
> 
> Best,
> -jay
> 
> 
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