[LLVMdev] this file was developed by ...

[Chris Lattner]

On Dec 13, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

>
> Per the developer policy, the LLVM file header is:
>
> // This file was developed by RANDOM NAME HERE and is distributed  
> under
> // the University of Illinois Open Source License. See LICENSE.TXT for
> // details.
>
> The continuing obvious problem is that this name is generally  
> meaningless
> as time goes on.  People leave the project, code gets replaced, and
> 'ownership' changes.  The current policy is that the person who  
> creates
> the file touches it.
>
> Does anyone have a problem with changing this to:
>
> // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open  
> Source
> // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
>
> And leaving this whole business to our friendly version control system
> (e.g. svn annotate), which has the perfect answer all the time?

Ok. I'm going to make this change, thanks to all who responded.

-Chris