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The full thread for this discussion can be > found here: > > > Please let me know if it's okay to you to transform your copyright > notices to make them uniform? That is, do you approve > > in what affects you? I was not sure if I should reply to all (including the mailing list). Please clarify for others. This change is OK as far as I am concerned. I'm always happy to help lessen the maintenance burden. Eliminating redundant, copyright information appears to be a good way to it. The git history holds detailed information about the line-by-line modifications to each file anyway. Thanks, Mathieu > > I've generated the BCC with > > $ git show 9f2986c34166085225bb5606ebfd4952054e1657 -- man \ > | grep '^-[^-]' \ > | grep @ \ > | grep -o '[^ ]*@[^ ]*' \ > | sed 's/,//g' \ > | sed 's/\.$//' \ > | sed 's/.*(//' \ > | sed 's/ | sed 's/>//' \ > | sed 's/\.)//' \ > | sed 's/)//' \ > | sort \ > | uniq \ > | sed 's/^/Bcc: /'; > > > Have a lovely day! > Alex > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 11:28:29PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> Hi Carlos, >> >> On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 04:18:35PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >>> On 4/8/25 8:42 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >>>> Hi Alex, >>>> >>>> At 2025-04-08T01:05:02+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 12:20:58AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 05:02:10PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >>>>>>> If you do this, I suggest you replace these lines with something >>>>>>> like: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> .\" See the Git revision history at >>>>>>> .\" $URL >>>>>>> .\" for records of changes and contributors to this file. >>>>>> >>>>>> Good idea. >>>>> >>>>> I'm thinking I won't do that. I don't want to add that overhead to >>>>> each page. People interested in the history of a page will already >>>>> have a look at the git history, and there they'll find the old states >>>>> of a page, in which they'll find this information. >>>>> >>>>> And it would require some non-trivial work to add this note >>>>> consistently. I'll go with a removal without replacement, I think. >>>> >>>> Acknowledged. It's been a whole 7 weeks for so, so I don't clearly >>>> remember my reasoning from February, but my suggestion may have been at >>>> attempt to find a "conservative" alteration to file content or the >>>> expressed meaning of the comments. >>>> >>>> But, what's conservative in one dimension often is not in another, such >>>> as "labor required". >>>> >>>> I also agree that while Git is a complex suite of tools, "git log" is >>>> not among its deeper magicks. At least not when run without arguments. >>> >>> We did something similar in glibc and created a CONTRIBUTED-BY file at the >>> top-level and moved all contribution lines out of the respective >>> files into the top-level file. >> >> Yep, a CREDITS file would be interesting. I wouldn't keep info about >> which specific files were written by each contributor. That seems >> something more appripriate for git-log(1). The pre-git contributions >> will be visible in old versions of the pages (i.e., if one sees >> Jane Random Developer in CREDITS and wonders which pages she contributed >> to, they can `git log -S 'Jane Random Developer'` and similar commands >> to find out. >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> Have a lovely night! >> Alex >> >>> >>> e.g. >>> ~~~ >>> The glibc project stopped adding "Contributed by" lines to source files in 2012 >>> in favour of acknowledging contributors in the glibc manual and through the git >>> log. The record of existing "Contributed by" lines have now been moved to this >>> file to acknowledge contributions by these developers to glibc. >>> >>> argp/argp-test.c: >>> Written by Miles Bader . >>> >>> argp/tst-argp1.c: >>> Contributed by Ulrich Drepper , 2002. >>> ... >>> ~~~ >>> The top-level CONTRIBUTED-BY has ~3,000 Contributed/Written by lines. >>> >>> Sme of the authors predated the use of git and so it was simpler to keep the >>> lines somewhere as part of the transition away from "Contributed by"-style >>> lines. >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> Carlos. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> > > > -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. https://www.efficios.com