license: removes copyright year and uses SPDX ID #3749
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codefromthecrypt
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Mar 5, 2024
| token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }} | ||
| # allow build-bin/javadoc_to_gh_pages to get the full history | ||
| # Allow build-bin/javadoc_to_gh_pages to fetch and push gh-pages | ||
| # See https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/578 |
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notable thing is the comment was imprecise
anuraaga
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Mar 5, 2024
As a small project, we have to conserve resources and not sign up for work that isn't required. I've recently realized many [commercial](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/main/command/cli/cli.go#L1-L2) and/or [CNCF projects](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/blob/main/api/all/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/api/trace/Tracer.java#L1-L4) both use SPDX IDs and also don't bother with copyright year. If their legal team is ok with this, surely a volunteer team without access to one should be, too! Doing so accomplishes the following, all of which help volunteers: * significantly increases readability of files, particularly small ones * removes beginning of year maintenance, which cause a lot of FUD last year. IIRC some deployment failed and hours were spent in spite of docs. * eliminates the need to do a full source check out, just to satisfy the license plugin. This means we can use actions/checkout defaults. Signed-off-by: Adrian Cole <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Cole <[email protected]>
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one nice side effect is the raw HTML isn't dominated by license text anymore ;) $ curl -s localhost:9411/zipkin/index.html
<!--
Copyright The OpenZipkin Authors
SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<base href="/zipkin" >
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<link rel="icon" href="/zipkin/favicon.ico" />
<title>Zipkin</title>
<script type="module" crossorigin src="/zipkin/static/js/index.51c4d5b0.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/zipkin/static/css/index.a7aa86b4.css">
</head>
<body>
<noscript>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.</noscript>
<div id="root"></div>
</body>
</html> |
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As a small project, we have to conserve resources and not sign up for work that isn't required. I've recently realized many commercial and/or CNCF projects both use SPDX IDs and also don't bother with copyright year. If their legal team is ok with this, surely a volunteer team without access to one should be, too!
Doing so accomplishes the following, all of which help volunteers:
(same change as openzipkin/zipkin-reporter-java#257)