On 4 May 2011 10:37, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > > Copyright is covered by the notice at the top of every file. > Authorship is another story. I've seen no reason to add the name > of every "author" to each source file that's affected (and am > strongly inclined never to do that). > That is meta data and belongs in the logs, not in the sources. > > Besides, users of gnulib will need to know authorship of an > individual file no more than we need to know who contributed > to glibc's stdio-common/vprintf.c.
In that case why is anyone's name in any file header? Shouldn't they all be FSF? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
