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empira / PDFsharp-1.5

A .NET library for processing PDF
MIT License
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Remove copyright headers #79

Closed MovGP0 closed 1 year ago

MovGP0 commented 5 years ago

Copyright headers should not be put in every file, since it introduces clutter and duplication that has to be maintained by developers, while providing no value.

Instead you should provide a License.md file with the proper information instead. This greatly reduces code clutter/duplication, while maintaining the same legal status.

prepare commented 4 years ago

Another way of 'short form' license.

//MIT, 2005-2019, Stefan Lange, empira Software GmbH, Cologne Area (Germany),http://www.pdfsharp.com

From this original form

region PDFsharp - A .NET library for processing PDF

// // Authors: // Stefan Lange // // Copyright (c) 2005-2019 empira Software GmbH, Cologne Area (Germany) // // http://www.pdfsharp.com // http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsharp // // Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a // copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), // to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation // the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, // and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the // Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: // // The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included // in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. // // THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR // IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, // FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL // THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER // LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING // FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER // DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

endregion

hangy commented 4 years ago

Or use an SPDX identifier:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
// Copyright (c) 2005-2020 empira Software GmbH, Cologne Area (Germany)
MovGP0 commented 4 years ago

Or just use the assembly metadata from AssemblyInfo.cs. there is no additional value gained from the commented sections.