[Zope-dev] Copyright update for z3c.ajax: no buildout, no headers

[Christian Theune]

On 06/04/2010 12:49 PM, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
> On 6/3/10 8:20 AM, Christian Theune wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just fixed up z3c.ajax and it has a quirk that the check doesn't know
>> about:
>>
>> If a file doesn't contain any copyright attribution header, it ignores
>> that file.
>>
>> In this case, z3c.ajax has no headers at all. no setup.py. no buildout.
>>
>> I added the missing license and copyright files to silence the check but
>> I'm relatively sure there's an edge case here.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Any ideas yet on situations like these?
>
> I found several packages now that do not contain any copyright headers
> in the python modules, or, sometimes they do in the package itself, but
> not in the package's test modules.
>
> I decided to just go ahead for now silencing the check, my reasoning
> being: if the copyright-checkscript is updated at some point in time to
> also check for copyright-less modules, we automatically will have list
> again of project that need fixing in that regard.
>
> OK?

That's what I think and did this morning, too.


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