[OpenWrt-Devel] Remove generic OpenWrt copyright spread through files

[mail at adrianschmutzler.de]

Hi,

I frequently encounter files in the OpenWrt trunk (both Makefiles and files included in images) that contain "generic" Copyright information like:

#
# Copyright (C) 2014-2016 OpenWrt.org
# Copyright (C) 2016 LEDE-Project.org
#

By "generic", I'm referring to the fact that this claims OpenWrt copyright inside the OpenWrt projects code, which seems redundant to me.

Examples:
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/master/package/system/opkg/Makefile
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/master/target/linux/mvebu/cortexa72/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network

In the first example, a similar argument applies to the license, which is just a repetition of the repo's license.

I wonder whether it would be appropriate to remove these "redundant" Copyright/license comments. To me, it just looks like a waste of space (in case of the board.d file actually space on the device) where it is not really conveying any additional information.

As I'm a young member in development though, I'd like to have some opinions on this one before I do anything (including proposing a patch).

Best

Adrian
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