Re: [ros-dev] Re: [ros-diffs] [ea] 18199: - add copyright notice

[Alex Ionescu]

Steven Edwards wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> --- Thomas Weidenmueller <w3seek(a)reactos.com> wrote:
>   
>
> >  Alex Ionescu wrote:
> >     
> >
> > >  It is a long overdue janitorial task to remove all
> > > the per-file
> > > copyright headers, adding more won't help ;)
> > >       
> > >  
> > Huh, did I miss something? From what I know, it is highly recommended to
> > have a copyright/license notice in every single file.
> >     
> >  
> You cannot remove the license headers. This would be a violation of the law and make
> tracking the
> changes even harder. The only thing we can do is standardise on the headers we use.
>
> Thanks
> Steven
>
>   
>  
Hi Steven,

Did I miss something? You and I are the original two people that worked 
on this idea and generated the standard ReactOS header, after which I 
asked someone to replace it all over the ntoskrnl and other places 
except wine-libs (he gave up after the kernel though). At the time you 
clearly indicated that having
COPYRIGHT: See COPYING file in top-level directory. and
PROGRAMMERS: Foo, Bar, Bez

was sufficient and would make standard headers easier and significantly 
reduce disk/bandwidth costs.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu