Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?)

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Jan-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| In that case, switching to copyright assignment right now is probably
| going to be damn near impossible. It's very likely at least a few
| contributors are dead by now.

Yes, some are.  I don't see it as impossible.  Why wouldn't we be able
to ask for assignments and get the ones that we can and live with the
rest?  I'm thinking primarily of those who explicitly claimed
copyright on a file, not everyone who ever contributed a patch.

jwe