Switch to Apache 2.0 license for patent protections and consistency with Viceroy and many of our other SDKs.#75
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Looks good, I don't have a solid answer on boilerplate other than that I have been told elsewhere that it isn't necessary to blast copyright/license notifications in ever file for them to hold (not from fastly counsel).
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Note my "This project is Copyright" lead-in and the lack of parametrizing the
[name of copyright holder]square brackets at the end.The world varies considerably in its treatment of these, and it's unclear to me what's correct. The most trustworthy examples to me are Apache itself and OpenOffice, both projects of the Apache Foundation and neither of which parametrize. Viceroy doesn't either. I think parametrizers are misunderstanding the how-to-apply instructions as part of the license.
That said, I feel the copyright owner should be stated somewhere unambiguously, without hiding it away in the technical couchings of package metadata, hence my lead-in. LLVM does this as well. I can't wait to hear what counsel says.