[FFmpeg-devel] Dirac Golomb decoder [PATCH]

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:12:23PM +0200, Balatoni Denes wrote:
> Sorry to butt in the discussion, but
> 
> Tuesday 14 August 2007 21:52-kor Michael Niedermayer ezt ?rta:
> > >   * Copyright (c) 2003 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> > > + * Copyright (c) 2007 Marco Gerards <marco at gnu.org>
> > >   *
> >
> > as reimar already said, we are affraid of ending up with hundreads of
> > copyright lines ...
> > if you want your name in the file, i think maybe something like
> >
> > /**
> >  * this function finds the foobar.
> >  * @author (copyright) Marco Gerards <marco at gnu.org>
> >
> > above functions you wrote, would be a compromise
> 
> IMO if somebody contributes some not very trivial lines, and he explicitly 
> wants his copyright to that part recognized, he should not be prevented to do 
> so - that sounds fishy to me, in an illegal way.

There is nothing illegal here, I think nobody would ever just remove
such a line without at least trying very hard to get the authors
permission.
Also for all I know those "Copyright..." lines are little more than a
historic leftover without much meaning nowadays.
But so far I can't remember a case where this was a issue in the end. If
it ever happens to be it will be treated the same as any other change
that some of use consider ugly: It will be discussed, possibly modified
and either applied or not (please notice that unless I misread it,
neither I nor Michael said we would not accept adding such a notice, we
just voiced our concerns - though mine might have sounded a bit strong,
but pure data tables are one case where I would actually strongly oppose
such a notice, claiming copyright on "trivial" (with respect to creativity)
things is not something we should foster).

Greetings,
Reimar D?ffinger