[FFmpeg-devel] Dirac Golomb decoder [PATCH]

[Diego Biurrun]

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. Although this compromise 
> suggested is fine, imho putting the notice at the beginning of the file is a 
> little better, because the copyright holders can be seen more easily; and it 
> shouldn't pose a problem until it is not requested by a thousand people 
> (which up to now has not been) - even than, if the names are written in one 
> line after each other, separated by a coma, it shouldn't be such a big deal. 
> Anyway, this is my opinion, I wonder how it is done by other projects.

Many other projects just don't have names in the file headers at all,
for example xine or Subversion.

Diego