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Don't render the boilerplate in the license template. #44

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lord63 opened this issue Mar 10, 2015 · 5 comments
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Don't render the boilerplate in the license template. #44

lord63 opened this issue Mar 10, 2015 · 5 comments

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lord63 commented Mar 10, 2015

For example, the gpl-2.0 license, we don't have to render the boilerplate at the end of the license, all we need is just copy the content into a file named LICENSE.
Let me know if I was wrong.

@ejmr ejmr closed this as completed in 01c62a8 Oct 22, 2015
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lord63 commented Oct 22, 2015

My original meaning is don't render the variables(as I pointed in the url, in line 280)

Copyright (C) {{ year }} {{ organization }}

just let them be.

the change was introduced in 09e3271

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lord63 commented Oct 22, 2015

By the way, got this information from here

How to apply this license

Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license into the file.

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ejmr commented Oct 22, 2015

My original meaning is don't render the variables.

As in, don't create output like this?

Copyright (C) 2015 John Doe

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lord63 commented Oct 22, 2015

As far as I know, yeah, just let them be, don't render them.

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ejmr commented Oct 23, 2015

In my experience, I have always seen years and names explicitly included in the copyright line when using the GPL. I will look for official documentation re. the GPL on that matter, but to give an example, when I started maintaining PHP Mode for Emacs I was told to update the copyright line(s) appropriately like so. So I don't think we should remove them from the template. I think the GPL requires such information, but I could be wrong, so like I said I'll look for any documentation/information on the matter.

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