[openstack-dev] why do we put a license in every file?

Radomir Dopieralski openstack at sheep.art.pl
Thu Feb 6 12:15:47 UTC 2014


On 05/02/14 17:46, Jay Pipes 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.

It's actually not just a habit, it's a requirement, and hacking has a
check for files with missing licenses.

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Radomir Dopieralski




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