Re: Maintaining copyright notices

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 1/4/20 2:58 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 19:10:50 -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> To minimize the difficulty of maintaining the copyright notices, I would
>> like to change Octave's sources to use what is described here
> 
> I agree completely with this proposal.
> 
>> Should the COPYRIGHT file include email addresses with the names?  For now,
>> I have them as <...> in the attached copy but the original version that I
>> created includes the full addresses.
> 
> No, not necessary.
> 
>> Additionally, I think it is time to drop the "Author:", "Created:",
>> "Adapted-by:" and similar lines that appear in some source files since that
>> information is incomplete, tends to become inaccurate over time, and is
>> duplicated in the version control system (where it is also most likely to be
>> correct).
> 
> Yes, please.
> 

Totally agree to this, too.

Kai