Re: Memory overrun in http-push.c

On Friday 2007, March 02, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

quoted

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.

Well, I wasn't actually suggesting that as a final solution, it might be 
that it's done by more than just line count, and that some clever bit 
of machinery measures real contribution.  That wasn't really the point.

Besides, IMHO adding copyright should be a _concious_ act.

Well, IMHO, the concious act was the commital of a change.

A lot of your objection to this seems to be "IMHO".  Fine: you don't 
like keywords, you wouldn't be /forced/ to use them.  I can see a use 
for them.  I'm having a lot of trouble understanding why they are seen 
as inherently evil.  Difficult to implement, I would accept, 
impractical to make work in git would be fine; but not this hand wavery 
that there is no conceivable use for them.


Andy

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