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Re: Overview of copyright issues
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Joseph Wakeling |
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Re: Overview of copyright issues |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:40:46 +0200 |
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Graham Percival wrote:
> For this reason, I categorically refuse to have file-specific
> ownership. Documentation is documentation; any doc committers
> will be listed in the same place.
About docs, I completely agree. I didn't have to spend long in the git
logs to realise that it just wasn't feasible to meaningfully identify
contributors -- there's too much moving, renaming, copy-pasting, etc.
> I still think it would be a complete waste of time, but if you
> really want to track down file ownership of source code, _I_ won't
> stop you. You'd better check that everybody else is ok with this,
> though. And by "ok", I mean "agrees to you doing the initial
> work, *and* commits to maintain such info in the future".
I think with code it has more value, and ought to be reasonably easy to
maintain. There's also the fact that the code, unlike the docs, _does_
contain per-file copyright notices, and that these are wrong. If we're
going to have them, they ought to be accurate.
Best wishes,
-- Joe
- Re: Overview of copyright issues, (continued)
- Re: Overview of copyright issues, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/09/19
- Re: Overview of copyright issues, Anthony W. Youngman, 2009/09/19
- Re: Overview of copyright issues, Valentin Villenave, 2009/09/19
- Re: Overview of copyright issues, Matthias Kilian, 2009/09/20
- Re: Overview of copyright issues, Travis Briggs, 2009/09/20
- Re: Overview of copyright issues, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2009/09/19
- Re: Overview of copyright issues, Graham Percival, 2009/09/20
- Re: Overview of copyright issues, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/09/19
- Re: Overview of copyright issues, Anthony W. Youngman, 2009/09/19
- Re: Overview of copyright issues, Graham Percival, 2009/09/20
- Re: Overview of copyright issues,
Joseph Wakeling <=