Monday October 31, 2011
| [Time] Name | Message |
|---|---|
| [11:38] mato | sustrik: ping |
| [11:39] sustrik | pong |
| [11:39] mato | sustrik: copyright != authorship |
| [11:39] sustrik | meaning that... |
| [11:39] mato | sustrik: i realise you want to treat everyone equally, and that is commendable, but even in the case why this discussion started, copyright is not authorship |
| [11:40] sustrik | so? |
| [11:40] mato | well, us two are the authors of said changes |
| [11:40] mato | but the (c)'s are on the people that paid for it |
| [11:40] sustrik | ok, so AUTHORS is for authors |
| [11:40] sustrik | file headers is for copyrights |
| [11:40] mato | that's the idea |
| [11:41] mato | but you don't want to go cluttering the file headers with copyrights for every trivial patch |
| [11:41] mato | maintenance pain |
| [11:41] mato | even AUTHORS in theory could be generated from the Git history, if it was complete :-) |
| [11:42] sustrik | ok |
| [11:42] mato | so, you get my reasoning? those who care about copyrights are free to add them |
| [11:42] mato | every author goes in authors anyway |
| [11:42] mato | makes sense? |
| [11:42] sustrik | yep |
| [11:43] mato | great |
| [11:43] mato | of course, i may be accused of pushing cargo cult policies :-) |