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Change http:// to https:// in our ASL2 copyright header? #14099

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@mikemccand

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Randomly, while grep'ing for http in our sources to locate links to external papers that inspired important changes in Lucene, I noticed that our standard Apache Software License version 2.0 copyright header still uses the non-SSL (http://) link.

Should we update that to https://? Would that show that Lucene devs take security seriously or so ("lead by example")? If you load the non-SSL url it redirects anyways to the SSL version.

Apache's official guidelines on the copyright header text specifically state that https is acceptable, though the copy/paste text sample given there is non-SSL.

Curiously, a couple source files in Lucene do use the https:// URL in the copyright header! gradlew.bat and gradlew, cool.

Using GitHub's search, I count ~43.8K source files under the Apache org that use the SSL URL, and ~1.3M source files that do not! We could be early adopters and join the ~3.2% of Apache source code that does use the SSL link!

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