Re: Policy for applying copyright notices

On Sunday 23 October 2011 20:01:33 Livnat Peer wrote: > On 10/23/2011 07:31 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > Having a person's name in the file is useful in terms of asking > > questions. Yes, git exists but not everything deals with git trees. > > > > If we're talking about stripping the Copyright line, that's not going to > > be allowed some corporate legal departments. People copy files between > > projects so preserving the copyright notice is pretty important. > > I was referring to the author. > One person is adding the file and many others are changing it. Many > times (after a while) the file has little to do with the original file > that was added. > > So for questions about the file you usually need to deal with the info > from the source control. WRT to omitting the person name (from past experience...), After a year or so people change positions / work places, and this becomes simply an old memory, with the relevant person not longer available to answer questions, so this is missing the point.