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Some file types by definition are excluded since they don't have licenses at all. They may not need a license: "A file without any degree of creativity in either its literal elements or its structure is not protected by copyright law; therefore, such a file does not require a license header." – https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html Other files "may make sense to have no license header". Three examples are: "short informational text files", "test data for which the addition of a source header would cause the tests to fail", and "'snippet' files that are combined as form a larger file where the larger file would have duplicate licensing headers".
When identifying the problematic areas for the relicensing process in incubator-netbeans, the following types of files are relevant, some/many of which could be seen to not having "any degree of creativity" or "may make sense to have no license header" via the above definitiondefinitions:
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| .form | find . -type f -name "*.form" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 1242 1019 have an adjacent Java source file with a license header 223 don't have an adjacent Java source file (form module tests) | Consensus appears to be that all .form files need to manually have licenses added, in incubator-netbeans, while Matisse needs to be able to generate licenses for .form files going forward. |
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| .png/.gif/other image files | find . -type f -name "*.png" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 2273 find . -type f -name "*.gif" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 1094 find . -type f -name "*.jpg" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 26 find . -type f -name "*.ico" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 3 | ||||||||||
| manifest files | find . -type f -name "*.form" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 772 | Does this have any degree of creativity? | |||||||||
| list files | find . -type f -name "*.list" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 42 | Does this have any degree of creativity? | |||||||||
| sig files | find . -type f -name "*.sig" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 108 | Does this have any degree of creativity? | |||||||||
| txt files | find . -type f -name "*.txt" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 930 | May make sense to have no license header? | |||||||||
| binaries-list files | find . -type f -name "binaries-list" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 121 | Does this have any degree of creativity? | |||||||||
| README files | find . -type f -name "README*" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 22 | May make sense to have no license header? | |||||||||
| file files | find . -type f -name "*.file" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 1 | May make sense to have no license header? | |||||||||
| jsp files | find . -type f -name "*.jsp" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 7 | ||||||||||
| xsl files | find . -type f -name "*.xsl" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 49 | ||||||||||
| sh files | find . -type f -name "*.sh" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 80 | ||||||||||
| css files | find . -type f -name "*.css | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 33 | ||||||||||
| pass (golden) files | find . -type f -name "*.pass" | grep -v '\.git' | wc -l Result: 2644 | Does this have any degree of creativity? | |||||||||
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