Remove excessive copyright/license boilerplate

[isaacs]

The copyright and license notice is already in the LICENSE file. There
is no justifiable reason to also require that it be included in every
file, since the individual files are not individually distributed except
as part of the entire package.

Since 1,105 files are changed in this diff, reviewers may need to pull it and check manually. I went through the list myself, and only lib/_tls_wrap.js had any unexpected issues, because of a stray comment in the middle of the copyright block that appeared to be the result of a past merge conflict oversight. (As if we needed more evidence that these copyright blocks are a troublesome eyesore!)

[shuhblam]

+1

[indutny]

Wut? Is it relevant?

[isaacs]

Oh, indeed, that is weird. I'll back that out.

[indutny]

I guess, the sed script gone wilde? ;) Other than minor issue - LGTM

[bnoordhuis]

The changes to deps/npm will be undone the next time it's upgraded, I think?

[isaacs]

Backed out changes to deps. That was a mistake. We'll have to do a similar de-boilerplate change in other places, maybe.

[isaacs]

Script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

files=($(git grep -l '// Copyright Joyent, Inc. and other Node contributors.'))

for f in "${files[@]}"; do
  echo $f
  tail -n +21 "$f" > "$f".bak
  mv "$f".bak "$f"
  while [ "$(head -n1 "$f")" = "" ] && [ "$(wc -l "$f" | awk '{print $1}')" -gt 0 ]; do
    tail -n +2 "$f" > "$f".bak
    mv "$f".bak "$f"
  done
done

[piscisaureus]

grep "copyright" -i -r * | grep -i "ben noordhuis"

[bnoordhuis]

I think this PR already needs a rebase. Things move fast around here.

[isaacs]

Rebased on v1.x

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Ben Noordhuis [email protected]
wrote:

I think this PR already needs a rebase. Things move fast around here.

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[isaacs]

@piscisaureus The stuff in deps, and anything not covered by the LICENSE file, should still have its obnoxious boilerplate. If Ben wants to remove his copyright notices, I'll leave that to @bnoordhuis.

[bnoordhuis]

The only things that are (c) me are src/queue.h and a test from my punycode library. The former is a verbatim copy from libuv, the latter can be stripped for all I care.

Apropos this PR, rubber-stamp LGTM.

[bnoordhuis]

@isaacs I see you landed this but you forgot the PR-URL and Reviewed-By tags.