Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Burnes, James wrote: > >> 3. Is it that you simply want an efficient mechanism for cataloging >> efforts of the major contributors to a project? If that's the case why >> don't we just come up with some sort of credits standard to be macro >> embedded in the binaries? That way anyone could view the credits by >> running a 'credits' shell command against the binary/library/kernel etc. >> Obviously the macros would be viewable in source. > Nice idea. I like it. It's also a good way to put the copyright notices > *into* the binaries, rather than merely next to them. How about a standard > ELF section for credits? :-)
I like the idea as well. FWIW, as an experimental implementation attempt, I have just modified my own little program (jpegpixi, of which I'm the upstream author; I'm not a DD) to put the copyright and license information (i.e. the text which is normally output in reaction to the --version command line option) in a separate ELF section ".license". The objcopy command can be used to dump and/or extract the contents of this section. Martin
