[LLVMdev] this file was developed by ...
Reid Spencer
rspencer at reidspencer.com
Thu Dec 13 17:26:52 PST 2007
Fine with me too.
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 17:15 -0800, 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?
>
> -Chris
>
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