[python-uk] copyright info in source

David Miller david at deadpansincerity.com
Mon Sep 9 15:50:32 CEST 2013


I <3 Colorama.

Copyright is quite dull.

Colors in terminal programs are awesome.


On 9 September 2013 14:42, Harry Percival <harry.percival at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not in dunderinits though, surely?
>
>
> On 9 September 2013 14:30, Gilberto Gonçalves <lursty at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I understand your concern since it doesn't look very DRY to put the
>> license in all the source files but I believe
>> that putting at least a header in each of the files as well as a full
>> License file in the root of your project is the
>> best way to do it.
>>
>> Check this:
>> http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/opensourceyourcode#applying-the-licence
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gil
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Jonathan Hartley <tartley at tartley.com>wrote:
>>
>>> A small Python project of mine is apparently being included in Chromium,
>>> because I've had a bug report from them that my source files (plural) fail
>>> their build-time license checker.
>>>
>>> They'd like me to include a license and copyright info in every source
>>> file (including empty __init__.py files).
>>>
>>> I've responded that I don't want to be unhelpful, but I don't believe in
>>> putting duplicate license and copyright info in every source code file. To
>>> my mind, it belongs in a single central place, i.e. the project LICENSE
>>> file.
>>>
>>> Am I being unreasonable and/or daft?
>>>
>>>     Jonathan
>>>
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