[Dovecot] Copyright notices in code

Trever L. Adams trever.adams at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 18:22:55 EEST 2007


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.

Just my over careful 2 cents.

Trever


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