[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Remove copyright line in source file headers

Hi, Maintaining copyright statements in source file headers is a pain. The ASF has solved this recently by removing copyright information from headers. Their header is now: /* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ The important line is "See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership". I propose that we do the same and have this new boilerplate: /* * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. * * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ And in the NOTICE file we would have: " This product includes software developed by XpertNet SARL and individual contributors under the following copyright: Copyright 2004-2007, XpertNet SARL, and individual contributors. " WDYT? I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea if this is valid or not but it looks sensible to me. -Vincent