Dear Mentors; Can someone point me to policy about file headers? I am currently looking at a package with a GPL copyright file in the top directory, and a terse statment "copyright X, released under the GPL" in most, but not all files. I think the files without copyright are non-essential, and could in principle be removed. There seems to be nothing reasonable to do as a packager about the lack of the usual gpl boilerplate. I understand that the best practice is to have a copyright statement and a clear statement of license in every file of the source code. What I don't know is if 1) This is a MUST dictated by policy as well as a SHOULD from best-practice? 2) Supposing it is a SHOULD, is the collective wisdom of the mentors that if I want to get the package sponsored, I should get it fixed anyway? We could call this MENTORS-MUST :-). Yours ignorantly, David
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