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

[Curt Hibbs]

You're suppose to be asleep!  :-)

Curt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Rich
> Kilmer
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:59 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [FR-devel] Standard source code header.
>
>
> 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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