patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-691735973
> We can only operate on the information we have. If authorship information was lost from CVS and SVN era (git author is Greg) and the header does not list anyone else than Greg, we can either "play safe" and leave the BSD header (we would respecting original authors license even if we don't know who it really was) or assume that without further information the original author cannot prove authorship either then we are safe to change to Apache. For these "unknown" cases, I don't see any other way. We just need to decide and then act. In the SVN/CVS days, I did always give credit to the contributor in comments. However, the task of reading all comments in those 15 thousand or so commits is a very onerous task. The information is there, just not easily accessible. AFAIK there are no un-credited changes in the repositories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
