[ros-dev] Re: [ros-diffs] [ea] 18199: - add copyright notice

[Alex Ionescu]

Steven Edwards wrote:

>Hello,
>
>--- Thomas Weidenmueller <w3seek at reactos.com> wrote:
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>>Alex Ionescu wrote:
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>>>It is a long overdue janitorial task to remove all the per-file
>>>copyright headers, adding more won't help ;)
>>>      
>>>
>>Huh, did I miss something? From what I know, it is highly recommended to
>>have a copyright/license notice in every single file.
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>>
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>You cannot remove the license headers. This would be a violation of the law and make tracking the
>changes even harder. The only thing we can do is standardise on the headers we use.
>
>Thanks
>Steven
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Hi Steven,

Did I miss something? You and I are the original two people that worked 
on this idea and generated the standard ReactOS header, after which I 
asked someone to replace it all over the ntoskrnl and other places 
except wine-libs (he gave up after the kernel though). At the time you 
clearly indicated that having
COPYRIGHT: See COPYING file in top-level directory. and
PROGRAMMERS: Foo, Bar, Bez

was sufficient and would make standard headers easier and significantly 
reduce disk/bandwidth costs.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu