On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:07:43PM -0400, Michael McCandless wrote:
> Marjan (CEO of Manning) likes the idea, but asks if we can put a
> comment at the top saying this came from LIA2 with a link the book's
> page at manning.com. I think that's OK? Any objections?
I'm glad that Manning is generally favorable, but I'm unsure about that. It's
kind of like @author tags, which are discouraged and which Lucene has
agressively removed. I guess since it's not a copyright it doesn't directly
violate this policy...
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers
However, where do the crediting comments begin and end? What happens when
pieces of this file get refactored into other files, do the crediting comments
proliferate or disappear? Shall I start including comments at the top of
files I submit crediting my employer? How about every other contributor?
IMO, crediting in source code should be strictly limited to copyright and
licensing concerns; for everything else, credit belongs in version control and
the issue tracker.
Cheers,
Marvin Humphrey
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