David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:09:13AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >> David Roundy writes: >> >> > Except, of course, that as Trent mentioned, the copyright >> > statements *don't* let users know who they need to contact for a >> > license exception for their code. So unless they are scrupulously >> > maintained, they're deceptive. >> >> Why do I find it scary that the maintainer of a VCS is arguing that >> less information is better? > > And I'll keep arguing that incorrect information is worse than no > information. The correct information is present, and I don't see a > benefit to adding incorrect information to it.
Strictly speaking, the _darcs metadata only approximates copyright details. In particular, there are (potentially) cases where - my employer holds copyright on everything I write; or - I record a patch that someone else actually wrote. However I agree with David that unless we're prepared to work out copyright details -- with AT LEAST as much accuracy as the _darcs metadata, then inlining the information in the files themselves is an ongoing, time-consuming activity that has no real benefit to anyone and can actually be misleading (when the declaration is wrong). _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
