<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 16, 2007, at 6:49 AM, Henrik Bach wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">> Consider someone who submits a whole file, but doesn't have SVN<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> commit access. So another one commits the file. When you now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> use "svn blame file", you'll see the name of the committer, not<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> the name of the author.<br><br>What about leaving an optional contributors line before/after the distribution text, e.g.:<br><br>// Code in this file is contributed by: mmhjm dsse, jhiuiui hjh, and lkjaa dfdf,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>// and is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source<br>// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.<br><br>- OR -<br><br>// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source<br>// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.<br><br>// Code in this file adheres to the licensing terms and is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>// contributed by: <List of authors><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>This has the opposite problem we do today: it isn't clear when someone should be added/removed to the list. SVN commit history captures all, in perfect details, so I don't think it's needed.</div><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div></body></html>