On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 08:33:29AM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 7:22 AM Dawid Kozinski/Multimedia (PLT)
> /SRPOL/Staff Engineer/Samsung Electronics <d.kozin...@samsung.com> wrote:
>
> > Should I leave the following lines:
> > + libxevd.c Dawid Kozinski
> > + libxeve.c, Dawid Kozinski
> > + evc.c, evc.h Dawid Kozinski
> > + evcdec.c Dawid Kozinski
> > + evc_parser.c Dawid Kozinski
> >
> > or should I remove them?
> >
>
> Here's a question for you, and the answer probably becomes self-evident
> from that. If you, Dawid, stop working for Samsung, for example because
> you're starting your own business or Samsung fires you or Google hires you,
> or if Samsung stops sponsoring this new codec called "EVC" or stops
> contributing to this new library "libxeve". Will you, Dawid, still maintain
> these files?
>
> If the answer is yes, then you can shorten these lines ("evc*.[ch]: Dawid"
> & "livxev[ed].c: Dawid") and keep them.
>
> If the answer is no, then I think you should remove (or adjust) these
> lines, since they are (in their current form) inaccurate: you are not
> maintaining these files, your company is.
> I think for code maintained by a company we still should list a person because persons can be contacted while large companies are sometimes very difficult to contact. maybe Dawid Kozinski (Samsung) or Samsung (Dawid Kozinski) or something like that would specify this better thx [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB "I am not trying to be anyone's saviour, I'm trying to think about the future and not be sad" - Elon Musk
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