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I certainly don't object myself, but I'd suggest reaching out directly to
the authors of those files and asking why they bothered (if only to avoid
having someone trying to restore those copyright notices later on).


-Dolph


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:51 AM, David Ripton <dripton at redhat.com> wrote:

> I'm not generally advocating removing copyright statements from source
> files.  If the author(s) put them in, then it's (at least) rude to take
> them out without permission, and getting permission from thousands of
> contributors would be a pain.
>
> But there's one particular case that drives me nuts.  We have source code
> files that contain _only_ a copyright statement, and no actual content to
> assert copyright over.  (I'm not talking about NOTICE files that exist to
> hold copyright statements; I'm talking about zero-byte __init__.py files
> that exist to mark a directory as a Python package.) You can't copyright a
> zero-byte file; there's no original creative content there.  And, because
> the copyright blurb makes the file's size nonzero, people waste time
> reading it to look for code.
>
> Anyone object to me emptying source files that contain no code, just
> copyright statements and boilerplate vim/emacs comments?
>
> --
> David Ripton   Red Hat   dripton at redhat.com
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