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EspoTek / Labrador

EspoTek Labrador is a USB device that transforms your PC or smartphone into a fully-featured electronics lab. This repo holds all of the source code!

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license clarification #177

Closed mikhirev closed 3 years ago

mikhirev commented 3 years ago

added GPL text
added copyright notices to source files
removed trailing spaces

EspoTek commented 3 years ago

Hi mate. Sorry about this, but I'd prefer not to have copyright info at the top of each file. If you'd like to make a new PR removing trailing whitespace, I'd be happy to accept that, though.

mikhirev commented 3 years ago

I'd prefer not to have copyright info at the top of each file.

Why? It is a common practice and it is done for purpose.

Removing trailing spaces is just a side effect of automatic files processing.

EspoTek commented 3 years ago

Mainly because it looks ugly. I'll usually go out of my way to delete auto-generated licences from the top of files I actively work with.

Regarding how common the practice is, it's obviously not uncommon, but it's far from a universal standard. The first three projects I looked up (Homebrew, Alacritty and stb) all didn't have the licence at the top of each file, although stb did have it at the bottom.