On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:15:37AM -0400, Steve Martinelli wrote:
> any chance legal can chime in on the original question?

FWIW, I agree with you and Jeremy.

Richard

>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Steve Martinelli <s.martinelli@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply Jeremy, that was my instinct too. I'll keep my -2 on
> > the review in question, but I'll wait for legal to chime in before asking
> > the author to abandon the patch.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2016-09-27 11:29:26 -0400 (-0400), Steve Martinelli wrote:
> >> > I recently came across a patch [1] that is trying to add the Apache
> >> license
> >> > to an autogenerated file.
> >> [...]
> >> > [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/377170/1
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> If there is a license to that file, then it's almost certainly a BSD
> >> license (derived from Sphinx's quickstart.py):
> >>
> >>     https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/master/sphinx/quickstart.py
> >>
> >> I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not keen on adding licenses to
> >> autogenerated (e.g. non-source) files where the original authors of
> >> the generator didn't design it to emit a license in its output to
> >> begin with. I would argue that the copy in our cookiecutter repo, as
> >> a derivative of the sphinx-quickstart output, should probably never
> >> have started out with an Apache license header in the first place (I
> >> wonder whether it was added to satisfy "Python scripts without a
> >> declared license" checks in one of our static analyzers?).
> >> --
> >> Jeremy Stanley
> >>
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