[Banshee-List] Getting rid of the license header

[Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander kojevnikov com>]

Hi list,

There is a blog post [1] and a discussion on HN [2] explaining how
long headers in source code files are not really necessary. After
discussing it with Gabriel on IRC he suggested to post this here.

So the idea is to get rid of the headers.

* Duplicating the license in each file is excessive and has no legal meaning.
* Git does a much better job at telling who is the author of a file
than the list of authors in the header.
* Same for the years in which the file was developed.

Gabriel proposed to replace all headers with just this:

// This code is released under the MIT/X11 license; see COPYING

Any objections or insights?

Cheers,
Alex

[1] http://hackerboss.com/get-rid-of-templates/
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1239810