Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] src/xenconfig: update copyright notice

Frankly, I find theese lines useless. Git blame tells you who wrote > which lines of code. I'm no laywer, but the way I understand copyrights > in GPL projects is that it comes important only if project wants to > change the licence (e.g. to BSD). Then it has to have confirmation from > all copyright holders. > > But problem with keeping copyright holders in files is that noone tracks > if they are still true. I mean, imagine somebody from company XYZ adding > a few lines to virsomething.c. They also add a copyright line into the > file. Later, when the code is reworked those lines are removed, but > noone will ever remove the copyright line and thus it's outdated. > > Therefore, I think we should remove all copyright lines from all the > files and just trust git to be able to generate list of authors from > given state of repo. > exactly, that would fair.

> > Michal >