[Dovecot] Copyright notices in code

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 17:30 +0200, DINH Viêt Hoà wrote:
> On 6/29/07, Trever L. Adams <trever.adams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > I thought about committing this change to all .c files:
> > >
> > > Removed all Copyright Timo Sirainen comments. They weren't always
> > > correct and the year numbers were rarely updated when something was
> > > changed. Copyright is owned by the creator by default in practically all
> > > countries, there's no need to advertise it everywhere.
> > >
> > > Can anyone think of reasons why this wouldn't be a good idea?
> >
> > It is always a good idea to spell out the copyright anyway. Besides, you
> > can't gaurantee that no one will use one file somewhere else, before
> > long the question of ownership and license becomes an issue if these
> > aren't spelled out in each file.
> 
> anyway, if someone use the file somewhere else, the copyright can be edited :)
> Personally, I think that a up-to-date file named 'COPYRIGHT' or
> something like that should be sufficient. (though, I care only about
> nice code and good architecture and don't care about boring licence
> stuff...).

One possibility would be:

/* Copyright Dovecot authors, see included AUTHORS and COPYING files */

But it's still a bit annoying to copy&paste that to all new created
files. :)

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