On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 05:14:39PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I thought about committing this change to all .c files:
> 
> Removed all Copyright Timo Sirainen comments. They weren't always
> correct and the year numbers were rarely updated when something was
> changed. Copyright is owned by the creator by default in practically all
> countries, there's no need to advertise it everywhere. 
> 
> Can anyone think of reasons why this wouldn't be a good idea?
> 

The FSF highly recommends putting the whole lot of it in each
file. It doesn't hurt and is the safest bet.

There are templates to use, that look like

<what this code does (one line)>

<copyright/dates/author (one to few lines)>

<license text (three paragraphs)>
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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