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