Mario Lenz

@felixfontein [said](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3517#issuecomment-1203003917): > The legal problem still is (if I remember correctly): the collection tarball acts both as the source and the installable artefact. Excluding files used for the development...

@gotmax23 Please close this issue if done, or open a new forum topic and then close the issue with a pointer to the new discussion: [Community-topics: Archiving the repo](https://forum.ansible.com/t/4990/8)

I've had a look at `community.vmware` and I've seen that there is also a `test-requirements.txt` in the root folder. @bcoca @felixfontein @ssbarnea Is this a file we should aim to...

@ssbarnea FYI I ran into [a problem when I removed test-requirements.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1745#issuecomment-1556219851). I agree that we should do this in gradual steps. Actually, I don't even know if this file is...

> `test-requirements.txt` is something I've never (actively) seen before. That's something that comes from the Ansible Zuul config: https://github.com/ansible/zuul-config/blob/master/roles/ansible-test/defaults/main.yaml#L28 I've tried to remove the file but then Zuul fails with:...

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@gotmax23 Please close this issue if done, or open a new forum topic and then close the issue with a pointer to the new discussion: [Community-topics: Archiving the repo](https://forum.ansible.com/t/4990/8)

> Generally, I like the idea of moving licenses to a dedicated directory, but the GitHub support relying on a file in the root can't be overlooked, so I don't...

> 1. Always add the `SPDX-License-Identifier:` directly after the existing license identifier, as in: > ``` > # Copyright: (c) 2022, ... > # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see...

> I think the main goal is to first get ansible-core and the steering committee (and hopefully larger parts of the community) to agree on such a recommendation, and then...