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projen / projen

Rapidly build modern applications with advanced configuration management
https://projen.io
Apache License 2.0
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Licenses applied wrong #3645

Closed EduardSchwarzkopf closed 2 weeks ago

EduardSchwarzkopf commented 2 weeks ago

I've noticed the Apache 2.0 license is not correctly applied. The placeholders are not replaced:

APPENDIX: How to apply the Apache License to your work.

  To apply the Apache License to your work, attach the following
  boilerplate notice, with the fields enclosed by brackets "[]"
  replaced with your own identifying information. (Don't include
  the brackets!)  The text should be enclosed in the appropriate
  comment syntax for the file format. We also recommend that a
  file or class name and description of purpose be included on the
  same "printed page" as the copyright notice for easier
  identification within third-party archives.

Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]

I've also found the same in the GPL licences. e.g. GPL-3.0-or-later

If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:

<program>  Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
mrgrain commented 2 weeks ago

Nope, these are not placeholders but descriptions on how to possibly apply the license in other scenarios (as a file header in the case or Apache 2.0 and for a terminal program in the case of GPL).

For what it's worth projen behaves exactly the same as other generators, like the GitHub.