Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 02/21] qapi: Generate up-to-date copyright notice

[Eric Blake]

On 02/05/2018 07:44 AM, Marc-Andre Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Each generator carries a copyright notice for the generator itself,
>> and another one for the files it generates.  Only the former have been
>> updated along the way, the latter have not, and are all out of date.
>>
>> Fix by copying the generator's copyright notice to the generated files
>> instead.
> 
> That makes sense, but we loose the Author lines in the generated
> files. Not a big deal I guess, but worth to point out, no?

I don't see too much use for author lines as long as you have a 'this
file is generated' line; you can use git history to learn the authors of
the generator code.  But yeah, a commit message blurb can't hurt.


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