Adding LICENSE file.

[kshithijiyer]

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[dwnusbaum]

I'm not sure about this. In pom.xml we already declare that we are using the MIT license:

workflow-cps-global-lib-plugin/pom.xml

Line 42 in ff614b7

<name>MIT License</name>

Is that not enough? Each file should have its own license header with the author who submitted the change. If we created a file in the root, would we need to include all of those authors in the main file and then update the date?

[kshithijiyer]

It is good to have a dedicated License file. Not every project will have a pom.xml and when someone is looking for a place to find what license a project is open sourced under than he'll generally look for a license file.

[oleg-nenashev]

It would not hurt. Some tools (including GitHub itself) rely on the license metadata exposed by GitHub API. it comes from this file, and Maven pom.xml is not sourced ATM

[dwnusbaum]

@oleg-nenashev Do you know though if this is the right way to do it, given there are many independent copyright owners listed in the headers in this plugin? I am not sure if it matters or not:

If we created a file in the root, would we need to include all of those authors in the main file and then update the date?

[oleg-nenashev]

I just append "and all other contributors" in the end of the line.

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