Mercurial > pidgin
changeset 27748:37141b94d568
Add a note about why we do this. Feel free to correct spelling
and grammer, and change for readability and correctness.
| author | Mark Doliner <mark@kingant.net> |
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| date | Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:56:33 +0000 |
| parents | 42359a734696 |
| children | 1b5b24dc0310 |
| files | COPYRIGHT |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/COPYRIGHT Fri Jul 31 00:48:16 2009 +0000 +++ b/COPYRIGHT Fri Jul 31 00:56:33 2009 +0000 @@ -1,8 +1,21 @@ Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple -Copyright (C) 1998-2009 by the following: + +This file is intended to be a comprehensive list of contributors to +this project. If you have contributed to this project then you deserve +to be on this list. Contact us (see: AUTHORS) and we'll add you. -If you have contributed to this project then you deserve to be on this -list. Contact us (see: AUTHORS) and we'll add you. +Many open source projects list contributor names at the top of each +source file that the contributor contributed to. However, we've found +that it is difficult to keep this list accurate. Especially when old +code is removed or existing code is moved to a different file. So +instead we chose to list a generic message at the top of each source +file that points here. + +If concerns are raised as to the copyright holder of a particular +piece of code, then that code should be traced through our version +control system to see where it came from and who has modified it. + +Copyright (C) 1998-2009 by the following: Saleem Abdulrasool Dave Ahlswede