Thanks. Does it make sense to include copyright notices for each change? If they build up to the point people ignore them, if they aren't already ignoring them ;-), then it negates any value from having them there in the first place.
On 16 July 2010 15:39, strk <s...@keybit.net> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 02:38:52PM -0400, Andrew Ross wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation Paul. Very much appreciated. > > > > My apologies for prolonging this thread with one more question. In terms > of > > coding style, does it make sense to have the copyright notices for each > > change in the code as this example? Should copyright notices from > previous > > modifications ever be removed? Please point me at the style guidelines if > > this is already defined. Thanks again. > > There's no official style guidelines as far as I know > (but could be wrong). What I try to do is follow the style > I find in the file being edited. > I started with TAB indenting for instance, but as others prefer > spaces we're somewhere slowly moving there, for new code. > You'll find a mix of TAB and spaces but hopefully only in different > files. > Changing the style of files has a bad effect on history tracking > and regression debugging. > > About copyright, old notices shouldnt' be removed unless > you're sure nothing is left from the original author. > > --strk; > > () Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer > /\ http://strk.keybit.net/services.html > _______________________________________________ > geos-devel mailing list > geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel > -- Andrew http://bit.ly/geodb
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