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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: copyright messages
From:       Marc Heyvaert <marc_heyvaert () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2004-03-31 19:28:10
Message-ID: 20040331192810.35893.qmail () web41502 ! mail ! yahoo ! com
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Hello,

We have to be careful that doesn't become a
metaphysical discussion :-)

What if all the code that someone contributed one day
has since been removed...

What if only the comment remains, or some blank lines,
or just the lines with /* and */?

What about some changes that were made to make the
code compile, e.g. adding an include to the .cc 
file?

What about spelling mistakes that where corrected by
deleting a word?

I know I'm pushing it a bit, but my point is that it
is not always possible to recreate exactly who
contributed what. So the option to only include the
*real* developers, i.e. those that contributed what is
still recognisable as *code* is the most reasonable
option IMO. The easiest option is to include everyone.

Marc

--- Ariya Hidayat <ariya@kde.org> wrote:
>  
> > I think, strictly speaking, you own the copyright
> on all changes regardless of  
> > how small they are.  You even own copyright on the
> copyright messages you add  
> > for someone else :)  But as always, I could be
> wrong. 
>  
> You're right, although I guess it's not really
> practical to include the copyright for every single 
> change in the source file. One possibility would be
> to make one text file which contains all 
> copyright holders, not specifically correspond to
> certain source files/bug fix/improvement/feature. 
> Then in each source file we can put only the ones
> who are certainly quite responsible for the 
> source file, because they are the likely persons
> somebody will contact with respect to questions 
> or patches. 
>  
> -- 
> Ariya Hidayat 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=ariya+blog&btnI 
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