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Remove invalid license template. #209

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@tfoote tfoote commented Jan 31, 2020

Flagged in #109 this template is not a valid template for the BSD license.
The correct license was added in #205

The original author doesn't know where it came from: ros2/geometry2#222 (comment)

This will cause a lot of warnings/errors. But anyone who's using this template for legacy code has modified the license, naming it something that doesn't exist. It doesn't match with legacy code as flagged in ros2/geometry2#222 And anyone who has written new code is not using the standard BSD 3 clause license that we would want because they're trying to pass our linter which wouldn't pass with that in the past. The subtle differences will cause nightmares for due diligence efforts.

The longer we go the worse the problem will be. We could add a backwards compatibility period for a while but there's no way that we'll know that everyone has fixed things, and in that time more people will likely follow the incorrect template.

Flagged in #109 this  template is not a valid template for a license.
The correct license was added in #205

Signed-off-by: Tully Foote <[email protected]>
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What is the proposed roll out strategy for this breaking change?

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tfoote commented Jan 31, 2020

I have opened pull requests against every instance of this template in ros2.repos.

tfoote added a commit to ros2/rcutils that referenced this pull request Feb 1, 2020
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cottsay commented Jun 11, 2020

@tfoote, will #205 be backported to all supported ROS 2 releases? If not, I'll need to create a new branch to take this change in rqt_reconfigure.

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audrow commented May 27, 2021

@tfoote, are we still interested in getting this in? Can I do anything to help?

@audrow audrow changed the base branch from master to rolling June 28, 2022 14:14
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