Remove year from license headers

[friegger]

Fixes #203

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated SPDX copyright attributions across project source, configuration, test, and documentation files.
  • Removed fixed copyright years and standardized attribution wording.
  • License identifiers remain unchanged.

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📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between f804b76 and 4de04ee.

📒 Files selected for processing (17)

• REUSE.toml
• Tiltfile.license
• cmd/metal-cloud-controller-manager/main.go
• hack/license-header.txt
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/cloud.go
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/cloud_test.go
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/config.go
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/config_test.go
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/constants.go
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/instances_v2.go
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/instances_v2_test.go
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/node_controller.go
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/node_controller_test.go
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/serverclaim_controller.go
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/serverclaim_controller_test.go
• pkg/cloudprovider/metal/suite_test.go
• pkg/version/version.go

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change removes fixed copyright years from REUSE configuration, the license header template, and existing SPDX headers in Go source and test files. License identifiers and credited organizations remain unchanged.

Changes

License header migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
License configuration and template updates REUSE.toml, Tiltfile.license, hack/license-header.txt	Copyright text no longer contains fixed years. The Apache-2.0 identifiers remain unchanged.
Existing source header updates cmd/metal-cloud-controller-manager/main.go, pkg/cloudprovider/metal/*, pkg/version/version.go	Existing Go source and test headers no longer contain fixed copyright years. No functional code changes were made.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4de04

This change removes fixed years from SPDX copyright text in configuration, templates, and source headers without changing runtime behavior or license identifiers. No current merge-readiness risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: afritzler

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description contains only the issue reference and omits the required Proposed Changes section and change summary.	Add the required Proposed Changes section with concise bullets describing the header migration, affected files, license-marker preservation, and validation such as make check-license.
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The changes address the main header migration and preserve the existing SPDX license identifiers. However, the linked issue also requires adding or documenting a safe rewrite process when existing hea…	Add or document the safe header-rewrite process, and provide evidence that all tracked code files retain valid SPDX markers and that make check-license passes.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: removing years from license headers.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All summarized changes are limited to SPDX copyright-header updates and related REUSE/license-header configuration. No unrelated functional changes are present.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…

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Explanation

The changes address the main header migration and preserve the existing SPDX license identifiers. However, the linked issue also requires adding or documenting a safe rewrite process when existing headers are not updated by current tooling, and the provided changes do not show that requirement or evidence that make check-license passes.

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