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[Pedro Manuel Baeza Romero <pedro.baeza@xxxxxxxxx>]

I see perfect to reduce the overhead of the headers, because it's a
nonsense, so I would say option b, but a recurring conflicting issue is
about the copyright: this part doesn't reflect at all the reality of the
code because:

   - People copy/paste from Odoo code and let Odoo copyright, which is not
   correct.
   - Author put its copyright, but contributors (that can exceed the LOC
   contributed from the author), doesn't remember to put its name in it.
   - BTW, it's very tedious to maintain this section for each file.

Why don't we just simply remove it? Copyright can be deduced from Git
history. I know that FSF recommends to put it, but it's that, only a
recommendation, not a must for AGPL.

Regards.

2015-01-05 12:09 GMT+01:00 Yannick Vaucher <yannick.vaucher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Most developers dislike redundancy, thus, all are tempted to reduce the
> size of source code by reducing or completly removing redundant license
> from source files. [1]
>
> Moreover, when writing a module you often have py files with only few
> lines, thus the header takes a lot of place.
>
> I think it is time to write down what we can and cannot do about AGPL
> license.
>
>
>
> Actual common use is to attach the full header at start of each source
> file. This is what is recommended by
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
>
> To be said I'm completely against removing completely the header I think a
> minimal copyright must be present in each source file to be read by the one
> who opens the file.
>
> To be minimalist, from what I read there thought, we could also accept
> minimal header with license like this
>
> # Copyright 2015 <author>
> # <notice where to find full licence>
>
> (with full license in __openerp__.py for exemple)
> Exemple here [2]
>
>
> Our options:
> a. We keep full header on each source file. And accept only this one.
>
> b. We define a minimal header template like this as an altenative (mostly
> taken from David Beal's proposal):
>
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> # Author: <author name>
> # Copyright 2015 <company or author>
> # License AGPL version 3 or later
> # See license in __openerp__.py or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt
>
>
>
>
> [1] More talks about it in:
> https://github.com/OCA/product-attribute/pull/34
>
> [2] An exemple of minimal license:
> https://github.com/OCA/carrier-delivery/pull/35/files
>
> Cheers,
>
> Yannick Vaucher
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>
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