Re: HACKING file

[Jules Bean <jules jellybean co uk>]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:50:44AM +0200, Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 12 Aug 2000 13:14 Ian Campbell wrote:
> > I think the copyright statement at the head of each file should
> attribute
> > copyright to 'The Balsa Maintainers' and we should have a MAINTAINERS
> (or a
> > CONTRIBUTORS) file. I would like to add an entry to that effect in
> HACKING
> 
> Sounds fine.

I think there's a problem with appearing to assign copyright to an
entity which doesn't exist. It might be better to have something like
(c) Stuart Parmenter and others, see MAINTAINERS file.

> > 
> > It would be very useful if every file had a brief description of what
> was in
> > it at the top.
> 
> Sounds fine, too.

That would be a great improvement ;-)

Jules

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