ea@svn.reactos.com wrote:
- add copyright noti
Hi,
Please don't add these -- we already have the COPYRIGHT: Please see COPYING file at the top-level directory.
It is a long overdue janitorial task to remove all the per-file copyright headers, adding more won't help ;)
Best regards, Alex Ionescu
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.
- Thomas
Thomas Weidenmueller 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.
- Thomas
Hi,
A long long time ago (like almost a year) we realized that it was really a waste of B/W to have the same header in every file. The generic COPYING message is used instead, and then the programmer's names are added to the specific file.
Best regards, Alex Ionescu
Hello,
--- Thomas Weidenmueller w3seek@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
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Steven Edwards wrote:
Hello,
--- Thomas Weidenmueller w3seek@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
Hi,
--- Alex Ionescu ionucu@videotron.ca wrote:
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.
That counts as a valid header...sorry your choice of words "remove license headers" seemed to imply that there would be no header at all. It is fine if you want to do that for all code that is developed by members of the ReactOS project. Any code from a third party project, Wine, Mesa, zlib, etc needs to maintain the original header.
Thanks Steven
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