This may be why PostgreSQL chooses to use the fictitious "PostgreSQL
Developers Group" for their copyright, however, I think we can cross
the bridge when we come to it. Doesn't seem to be slowing down Linux
at all.
P
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Andrew Ross wrote:
> 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 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;
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