[legal-discuss] Adding license header to autogenerated content

Steve Martinelli s.martinelli at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 04:47:56 UTC 2016


Thanks for your reply Richard, I'll recommend the author abandon the patch.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:15:37AM -0400, Steve Martinelli wrote:
> > any chance legal can chime in on the original question?
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> FWIW, I agree with you and Jeremy.
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> Richard
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> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Steve Martinelli <
> s.martinelli at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > 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
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> > > the author to abandon the patch.
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> > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at 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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