[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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