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When starting a new project, it would be good to be able to choose the licence it is released under. The most common ones - GPL, BSD, Artistic, Creative Commons, public domain etc would be included by default, with the option for the user to define their own. Code templates could then have a tag ${licence_notice}, which would be substituted with, for example "this is free software; you can redistribute it...". A copy of the full text of the licence could also be included in the project folder when a new project is started, at least for licence types which reqiure it.
Of course, the Eclipse Public Licence would be included as a choice by default. Section 3, paragraph 2 of the EPL: "When the Program is made available in source code form ...a copy of this Agreement must be included with each copy of the Program." I think this illustrates quite well why it would be a good idea to include a copy of the licence in the project folder when a new project is created.
I'm not sure where this would be implemented...
Created attachment 16266 [details] Example of this elsewhere I've attached a shot of this feature, on the new project dialog of KDevelop. I'm not (yet) familiar with the workings of Eclipse, so I couldn't say where it could be added. It's on my todo list to look into this.
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