Re: [glob2-devel] GPL / (c) - Header

[Stéphane Magnenat]

On Tuesday 08 December 2009 17:52:25 Leo Wandersleb wrote:
> hi
> 
> sorry for the noise. The FSF suggests to do it exactly like that. A big
>  block of (c) and GPL in the beginning of every file [1]. Well so then be
>  it. Others [2] do it, too.
> It only looks a bit weird if we put (c) info on every file for each
>  contributor who ever changed a line. sure if we ever want to change the
>  license, knowing who is copyright owner would be essential but i'd like to
>  keep it simple and as fiddling out who has contributed to which file and
>  when would be a nightmare already and near to impossible without
>  automatisms using the vcs i'd rather want to remove the (c) stuff
>  altogether than adding me to hundreds of files if possible.

We can track who contributed to which file using mercurial, as long as we have 
the full history. If so, we can add contributors to a single list only, and 
have there proper name/email linking to username in mercurial.

Have a nice day,

Stéphane

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