[dev] [commits] Horde branch master updated. 2a85e684e4ff9e367734b150942d81e35939c2bf

[Ralf Lang]

Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011, 09:23:40 schrieb Jan Schneider:
> Zitat von Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:
> > Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
> >> Zitat von Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:
> >>> commit 32c1220a6480f4c050e8453373d1c7fbe731cc8d
> >>> Author: Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>
> >>> Date:   Fri Sep 9 17:35:26 2011 +0200
> >>> 
> >>>   Replace The Horde Project with Horde LLC
> >>>   I wonder how much sense it makes to ship three licenses with skeleton
> >>>   when virtually all files have GPL headers inside
> >>> 
[..]
> >>> http://git.horde.org/horde-git/-/commit/32c1220a6480f4c050e8453373d1c7f
> >>> be731cc8d
> >> 
> >> We should probably add headers for all licenses then, so that the
> >> right one can easily be picked.
> >> 
> >> Jan.
> > 
> > This would not be very practical for somebody who really uses
> > skeleton to start an app. He would need to scan all files for
> > headers to keep or delete.
> 
> I don't think that's too high of a burden, most people with probably
> search & replace in an editor anyway and open each file for that. And
> they already have to pick one license in the docs.


> > 
> > Maybe we can settle for a placeholder tag and I add a small helper
> > script to the skeleton wiki page which replaces them for any license
> > string and url?
> 
> That doesn't sound good. If at all, we need a script that generates a
> complete, customized application from skeleton, asking questions about
> application name, license to use, and probably a few other things, and
> skeleton should not work out of the box without running that script.
> But that's really a completely different (improved) approach. I don't
> want anything half-way there though.
> 
> Jan.

You're probably right. 

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