Don't render the boilerplate in the license template.
lord63 opened this issue · comments
For example, the gpl-2.0 license, we don't have to render the boilerplate at the end of the license, all we need is just copy the content into a file named LICENSE.
Let me know if I was wrong.
My original meaning is don't render the variables(as I pointed in the url, in line 280)
Copyright (C) {{ year }} {{ organization }}
just let them be.
the change was introduced in 09e3271
By the way, got this information from here
How to apply this license
Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license into the file.
My original meaning is don't render the variables.
As in, don't create output like this?
Copyright (C) 2015 John Doe
As far as I know, yeah, just let them be, don't render them.
In my experience, I have always seen years and names explicitly included in the copyright line when using the GPL. I will look for official documentation re. the GPL on that matter, but to give an example, when I started maintaining PHP Mode for Emacs I was told to update the copyright line(s) appropriately like so. So I don't think we should remove them from the template. I think the GPL requires such information, but I could be wrong, so like I said I'll look for any documentation/information on the matter.