RE: [FR-devel] Standard source code header.

[Rich Kilmer]

This is fine with me as well

-rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Curt
> Hibbs
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:45 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [FR-devel] Standard source code header.
> 
> 
> Laurent Julliard wrote:
> > Everybody knows what to expect from a README file and I don't think 
> > necessary to clutter the introductory header of each source file with 
> > redundant information.
> > 
> > The goal of this header is really sort of legal: say who the author is 
> > and to which "entity" this file belong to.
> > 
> > On a second thought the header should not say "Written by"  but should 
> > have a Copyright Statement. This is because we do not belong to an 
> > entity to which we can assign the Copyright so we must keep it the 
> > individual level.
> > 
> > So the header should be something like this:
> > 
> > # Purpose: what this file is all about (2-3 lines maximum)
> > # ....
> > # $Id$   (<- CVS standard header for version number and date)
> > #
> > # Copyright (C) Year, Author's name  <email>. All rights reserved.
> > # Modified by: Author's name <email>
> > #
> > # This file is part of the FreeRIDE project
> > #
> > # This application is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > # modify it under the terms of the Ruby license defined in the
> > # COPYING file.
> > #
> 
> Sounds good to me.
> 
> Curt
> 
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