Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH libnbd] python: Add AIO buffer is_zero method.

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 04:16:09PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: > I know this probably got answered somewhere, but I've never gotten > any when asking myself. So let me use this opportunity. > > Because I really despise useless processes and duplicated > information I always hated the way all the "mandatory" file headers. > As far as I understand it's related to the fact that the file itself > used to be the only source of information about where the code came > from. Nowadays we have more information in git. > > The reason all this is happening is to be able to prove that there > is traceable source of the code, right? I, personally, do not > really like when you get couple of lines of repeated information on > every start of the tool (`bc` should only ever be ran with `-q` for > any sane person). In my opinion that is never going to help any > user. > > All of this comes down to whether you prove the above if push comes > to shove. GPL talks about the headers and where are all the places > you *should* put the copyright notices and license information. But > I think it comes to the "should" and since it is written "to make > lawyers more confident" about 30 years ago it might've kept some of > the reservations from that era. > > Finally the question: How much of a problem would it be if we just > limited the information in file headers to minimum and pointed > people to git history and central license? > > Sorry for making you read all this, but I feel like you're very > knowledgeable and I struggle with this on a regular basis, so some > consensus would help me. Questions of a legal nature should be addressed to and answered by lawyers, but it's my current understanding that we need the boilerplate in files to make a cast iron assertion of copyright, licensing and warranty conditions. Until a lawyer (from RH Legal in this case) tells me otherwise, I'm afraid we need to keep the boilerplate.

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