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why do we have copyrights in Apache Source Headers? #638
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This is non-standard. And causes annual pain with updating the years.
We have a NOTICE file. That has a copyright with a year. There is no reason to have it in source header.
Can we remove it from the source headers? It needs to remain if the code is from a 3rd party source but our LICENSE file mentions no such sources with Apache licenses. And we shouldn't modify them if they are from 3rd party source - so the 2026 change in PR 633 would need to be reverted.
Basically can we remove the copyrights in https://github.com/apache/burr/pull/633/changes except the one in the NOTICE file?
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pjfanning commentedon Jan 23, 2026
fyi @elijahbenizzy @skrawcz @potiuk
elijahbenizzy commentedon Jan 23, 2026
Yes this is not ideal. Will remove.
potiuk commentedon Jan 24, 2026
Correct - we do not keep copyright information in the source files - just licence headers and year only in NOTICE.
pjfanning commentedon Jan 30, 2026
@elijahbenizzy would it be possible to fix this for 0.41.1?
elijahbenizzy commentedon Feb 2, 2026
@pjfanning @potiuk yes I am preparing a release with this now! Will be 0.42.0 as we have a small new feature :)
andreahlert commentedon Mar 16, 2026
PR #651 replaced the non-standard copyright headers across the codebase, and #637 updated the NOTICE file. I verified the 0.42.0 release prep covered this. Should be safe to close.
andreahlert commentedon Mar 18, 2026
@elijahbenizzy @skrawcz copyright headers were cleaned up in PR #651 and NOTICE updated in #637, both merged into 0.42.0. Safe to close this one.