<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">All right,<br><br>I can life with that. </div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">Am 12. März 2024 13:27:56 MEZ schrieb Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier@googlemail.com>:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><div dir="auto">Hi Sophia, *,<br><br>On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 12:43 PM Sophia Schröder<br><sophia.schroeder@libreoffice.org> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"><br> would it be suitable to replace our big chunk of license boilerplate with a much more simpler<br> SPDX-License-Identifier?<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>replace in all files just for the sake of replacing it? That'll be<br>lots of noise for little gain, nearly all editors can collapse that by<br>default/remember your last editing position so scrolling past that<br>isn't really a big concern I'd say.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">It would reduce most of the license boilerplate to a simple oneliner and is even simpler for new developers.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>Not sure how that would be easier for new developers - whether they<br>paste one thing or the other doesn't really make a difference. And we<br>don't only want the license itself, but also the editor modelines to<br>be present, so I don't really see how this would make it easier. Maybe<br>for new files it can be adopted, but then we have both styles and that<br>might also not be desirable.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">I have already done it in my own copy fo LibreOffice source code.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>If that was done manually it is a hard no, if you did it with a<br>script: better to show the script.<br><br>ciao<br>Christian<br></div></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>