License boilerplate

[Sophia Schröder]

All right,

I can life with that. 

Am 12. März 2024 13:27:56 MEZ schrieb Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier at googlemail.com>:
>Hi Sophia, *,
>
>On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 12:43 PM Sophia Schröder
><sophia.schroeder at libreoffice.org> wrote:
>>
>> would it be suitable to replace our big chunk of license boilerplate with a much more simpler
>> SPDX-License-Identifier?
>
>replace in all files just for the sake of replacing it? That'll be
>lots of noise for little gain, nearly all editors can collapse that by
>default/remember your last editing position so scrolling past that
>isn't really a big concern I'd say.
>
>> It would reduce most of the license boilerplate to a simple oneliner and is even simpler for new developers.
>
>Not sure how that would be easier for new developers - whether they
>paste one thing or the other doesn't really make a difference. And we
>don't only want the license itself, but also the editor modelines to
>be present, so I don't really see how this would make it easier. Maybe
>for new files it can be adopted, but then we have both styles and that
>might also not be desirable.
>
>> I have already done it in my own copy fo LibreOffice source code.
>
>If that was done manually it is a hard no, if you did it with a
>script: better to show the script.
>
>ciao
>Christian
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