[Zope-dev] "Comply with repository policy" ?

[Christian Theune]

On 04/09/2010 05:31 PM, yuppie wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> Tres Seaver wrote:
>> yuppie wrote:
>>> Tres Seaver wrote:
>>> So depending on a layout difference (line break or not) it produces
>>> copyright headers with different content.
>>>
>>> Doesn't make any sense to me, but the people I already asked don't care.
>>
>> The "All Rights Reserved" is a little senseless, since the following
>> language turns around and says that the files are covered by the ZPL.
>
> I'm not opposed to removing that phrase. What I don't like is the fact
> that it is removed randomly based on a bug in a script that is made for
> a different purpose.

Right. I'd consider that behaviour not a bug, but actually point out 
that all the examples in documentations that I have found considered the 
copyright to be stand-alone on a single line with the next line 
following to carry the "All rights reserved" remark. Although the tool 
screws up, the output of the tool really is intended to be reviewed by 
the person who does the checkin.

> I think a change like that should be based on an official policy change,
> including new coding style guidelines:
> http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/codingstyle/python-style.html#license-statement-module-docstring

I'd move this off from the topic of the tool being broken: if either of 
you would like to follow up on removing the "all rights reserved" from 
the header, then please acknowledge that and I'll pick it up (probably 
that needs to go to the foundation?!? I bet some lawyer wanted that 
phrase to be in there originally and I guess we have to ask the ZF board 
whether that part of the policy can be changed.)

Christian

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