Good question, Roman. I'm also interested in this. Are there any best-practices of header usage ? Should we place headers whereven it needs ? 2013/11/28 Roman Prykhodchenko <rprikhodchenko at mirantis.com> > Hi folks, > > according to our hacking rules all source files should contain the Apache > license header in the beginning ( > http://docs.openstack.org/developer/hacking/#openstack-licensing). > There are special files that in most of the cases are empty, i.e., > __init__.py. > > I used to put license headers to __init__ files when I was working on > Neutron or Ironic. However, recently I got > a feedback for one of my patches from several folks that said that licence > headers should be removed from __init__ files because > empty files are not source files. > > The point of this email is _not_ to blame someone or to push my personal > opinion to the folks who gave me the feedback. What I'm trying to do is to > to bring more clarity to our hacking rules because, as I see, currently > different folks interpret them differently. > > > - Roman > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20131128/a58c69e4/attachment.html>