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[Chris Lattner]

On Dec 16, 2007, at 6:49 AM, Henrik Bach wrote:
> > Consider someone who submits a whole file, but doesn't have SVN
> > commit access. So another one commits the file. When you now
> > use "svn blame file", you'll see the name of the committer, not
> > the name of the author.
>
> What about leaving an optional contributors line before/after the  
> distribution text, e.g.:
>
> // Code in this file is contributed by: mmhjm dsse, jhiuiui hjh, and  
> lkjaa dfdf,
> // and is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
> // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
>
> - OR -
>
> // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open  
> Source
> // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
>
> // Code in this file adheres to the licensing terms and is
> // contributed by: <List of authors>

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.

-Chris
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