Shorter ASL2 header in short files

[Jacques Le Roux]

Hi,

At https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6243 we had a discussion about "ASL2 header in short files"

I'd like to propose as a project policy that we use this sentence proposed at
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#is-a-short-form-of-the-source-header-available

"Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements; and to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0. "

I know it's there proposed for other categories of files, but I think it fits, I see no reason to have a longer header than the content in short files

For short files, I see at least scripts (*.sh & *.bat), index.jsp, error*.jsp, *.properties and all readme kinds. Though we could also remove ASL2
headers in readme containing it to be consistent (see my last comment in OFBIZ-6243)

Opinions?

Jacques

[Jacopo Cappellato-5]

In my opinion we should include the full header, that is important to
comply with the ASF licenses policies, unless there is a strong reason for
not doing so.
BTW, the Q/A you have quoted doesn't apply very well to the scenario you
are considering: the rule doesn't say "you can use the short header if the
file is short". For short README files this one is more relevant:
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-exceptions

By the way, my preference is, inline with what is mentioned in that
document, to "err on having a source header and contact legal-discuss@ if
unsure".

Jacopo

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Jacques Le Roux <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6243 we had a discussion
> about "ASL2 header in short files"
>
> I'd like to propose as a project policy that we use this sentence proposed
> at http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#is-a-short-form
> -of-the-source-header-available
>
> "Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
> contributor license agreements; and to You under the Apache License,
> Version 2.0. "
>
> I know it's there proposed for other categories of files, but I think it
> fits, I see no reason to have a longer header than the content in short
> files
>
> For short files, I see at least scripts (*.sh & *.bat), index.jsp,
> error*.jsp, *.properties and all readme kinds. Though we could also remove
> ASL2 headers in readme containing it to be consistent (see my last comment
> in OFBIZ-6243)
>
> Opinions?
>
> Jacques
>
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Le 30/08/2016 à 08:21, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :
> In my opinion we should include the full header, that is important to
> comply with the ASF licenses policies, unless there is a strong reason for
> not doing so.

So not in README, right? I try here to have things consistent. We have currently 9 readme files with ASL2 headers on a total of ~30

> BTW, the Q/A you have quoted doesn't apply very well to the scenario you
> are considering: the rule doesn't say "you can use the short header if the
> file is short". For short README files this one is more relevant:
> http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-exceptions

Yes I know, the proposition was to shorten the short files lengths (some are only a line) since it's possible to use only this sentence.  I have not a
strong opinion about it anyway.
Note: all scripts file in the tools folder have the plain ASL2 header

> By the way, my preference is, inline with what is mentioned in that
> document, to "err on having a source header and contact legal-discuss@ if
> unsure".

I'll not, I just wanted to clarify with the community :)

Jacques

>
> Jacopo
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Jacques Le Roux <
> [hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> At https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6243 we had a discussion
>> about "ASL2 header in short files"
>>
>> I'd like to propose as a project policy that we use this sentence proposed
>> at http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#is-a-short-form
>> -of-the-source-header-available
>>
>> "Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
>> contributor license agreements; and to You under the Apache License,
>> Version 2.0. "
>>
>> I know it's there proposed for other categories of files, but I think it
>> fits, I see no reason to have a longer header than the content in short
>> files
>>
>> For short files, I see at least scripts (*.sh & *.bat), index.jsp,
>> error*.jsp, *.properties and all readme kinds. Though we could also remove
>> ASL2 headers in readme containing it to be consistent (see my last comment
>> in OFBIZ-6243)
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>>