From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:16:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Memory overrun in http-push.c
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703022014410.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200703021005.13620.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

> Here's another similar idea: generating copyright lines.  Let's say we 
> want to copyright every source file - that means writing "(C) Junio, (C) 
> Johannes, etc" at the top of every file.  Wouldn't it be nicer if we 
> could put $Copyright$ in the file, then have some git-blame-like 
> machinery fill in the copyrights automatically based on who's made 
> contributions?

That's a horrible idea. A typo fix is not copyrightable. You'd add these. 
An obious fix is not copyrightable. You'd add these cases, too.

Besides, IMHO adding copyright should be a _concious_ act.

Ciao,
Dscho