Hi, On 24 October 2010 22:40, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > So, I am opposed to this proposal. I think that such things are a waste > of space, make updating the copyright at the year change more difficult, > and, if they are really long (like they are sometimes) can scare people away > from the source code. > > > > You can also see my and Ondrej's comments on the pull request where Priit > originally proposed this here: > http://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/15#issuecomment-489603 (the comments > are buried in the rest of the review unfortunately). > > I am copy & pasting the comments. > > -------------- > Ondrej: > > As to the header + license, the license should be BSD and I prefer to > have just one license, see the LICENSE file for details. As to > authors, currently we have AUTHORS and also the about us section which > explains who did what: > > http://docs.sympy.org/aboutus.html#sympy-development-team > > and for the fine details, I would use git blame. For little things, > like this residue, I don't think it's a good idea to put people's > names into the file itself. For some big things, like geometric > algebra, it might make sense though. The main argument against it is > so that we keep polishing and integrating things in sympy, so that it > works well together. (as opposed to have a collection of separate > modules, each written by somebody else, without much cooperation) > > -------------- > Aaron: > > What is the motivation for the license at the top of the files? And > does it relate to this review in particular; I am confused? > > I personally think that doing that for every file is a waste of time > and space, and I don't really like having each individual author for > each file. If you want to know, you can use git to find out, but > listing people goes against the community authorship (I maybe am not > phrasing this the best way, but you understand what I am getting at). > > That's my view anyway. Ondrej, what is your opinion? > > EDIT: Yeah, so you agree with me. > > -------------- > Ondrej: > > As to authors --- I agree with Aaron. We clearly need to give credit > to all sympy authors, and the place for that is the "about us" > section, we should try to make it more public, e.g. maybe add a > section to our new pages at sympy.org. > > -------------- > > > But I agree that each module should have a docstring explaining what > it is doing. > If no license information in a file == public domain, then we will have to do this. If we will have to do this, then author of every file is "SymPy Development Team", so adding those two lines can be done automatically (as well as changing years). > > Ondrej > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To post to this group, send email to sy...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <sympy%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > > Mateusz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sy...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
