On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > You should be able to feel reward by your name in a file that you wrote.
I don't have any feelings one way or the other on the application of this principle to gnulib, but I thought I'd add two points to this particular question all the same. First, adding author names to files suggests that there is some ownership, in copyright terms, of that file -- and that is not the case, particularly in GNU projects. Second, new contributors tend to leave the existing author lines alone, which can lead to a case where the sole listed author is only responsible for 10% or less of the file, but nobody else has felt bold enough to add their name, let alone remove the listed author's name. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
