[Opengc-devel] OpenGC header/copyright update

[Damion S. <dam...@ho...>]

Hi everyone,

We've picked up a few new developers recently and I thought it would be a 
good time to udpate the format of the header placed at the top of each 
source file.

Specifically:

1) Copyright is now listed as applying to both the original author of a file 
and any contributing authors. This is not a change, merely a clarification.

2) CVS tags have been added to display the file name and last modification 
information. Note that the "author" listed in this section is the cvs 
username of the author of the most recent change, not the authors listed in 
(1). This is who to yell at if the file is broken ;-)

Everything else is unchanged. Please check to make sure that you're given 
credit in files you originated or contributed to. Note that this header is 
only used in files developed as part of OpenGC. Other code included in 
OpenGC but which comes from other sources should retain whatever header was 
found in the source material.

What defines a "contribution" to a file? I'll leave that up to everyone's 
discretion. I would suggest that minor bug fixes do not warrant inclusion in 
the header. However, I want to avoid hard feelings about credit, so feedback 
is welcome. This hasn't been a problem so far, and I don't anticipate it 
being one in the future.

I'm nearly finished with a web CVS interface to the "new" repository, and 
plan to provide tarball access to the nightly source tree via a cron job at 
some point in the not too distant future. Over the next few months, I'd like 
to get doxygen up and running, so if you notice the format of comments 
(primarily in the base classes) starting to change, that's why.

Cheers,
-Damion-

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