On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 17:30 +0200, DINH Viêt Hoà wrote: > On 6/29/07, Trever L. Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > I thought about committing this change to all .c files: > > > > > > Removed all Copyright Timo Sirainen comments. They weren't always > > > correct and the year numbers were rarely updated when something was > > > changed. Copyright is owned by the creator by default in practically all > > > countries, there's no need to advertise it everywhere. > > > > > > Can anyone think of reasons why this wouldn't be a good idea? > > > > It is always a good idea to spell out the copyright anyway. Besides, you > > can't gaurantee that no one will use one file somewhere else, before > > long the question of ownership and license becomes an issue if these > > aren't spelled out in each file. > > anyway, if someone use the file somewhere else, the copyright can be edited :) > Personally, I think that a up-to-date file named 'COPYRIGHT' or > something like that should be sufficient. (though, I care only about > nice code and good architecture and don't care about boring licence > stuff...).
One possibility would be: /* Copyright Dovecot authors, see included AUTHORS and COPYING files */ But it's still a bit annoying to copy&paste that to all new created files. :)
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