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

[Alex Ionescu]

ea(a)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

[Thomas Weidenmueller]

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

[Alex Ionescu]

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

[Steven Edwards]

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
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[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

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,
--- Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)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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