[aerogear-dev] [license headers] Applying the license to new software

[Matthias Wessendorf]

anyone else ?!

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
> The advice from Red Hat legal is that whilst it's nice to have headers on every file, including build scripts, POMs etc. it's not a requirement, as long as you have a LICENSE.txt somewhere.
>
> I think it makes sense to either have them, or not, and typically JBoss projects do have them. Ironically, I'm one of the worst culprits at not putting them on!
>
> On 20 Sep 2012, at 12:19, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> looking at different sources, I noticed that some files contain the
>> licenses headers and some not.
>>
>> At Apache we had the 'rule' that every file should have a license
>> header, this would also include build scripts, like pom.xml files.
>>
>> For more information see:
>> - http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html#new
>> - http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers
>>
>>
>> I'd like to establish the same 'pattern' for the AeroGear project -
>> however I am not sure if there is a similar (or even different) rule
>> with JBoss/Red Hat.
>>
>> thanks!
>> Matthias
>>
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