On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 12:35:54PM +0200, Marton Balint wrote:
[...]
> > - there is a FATE "test" with the expressive purpose of catching
> >  instances where the copyright header says "Libav" instead of
> >  "FFmpeg" after new files are added from Libav merges. One has to
> >  wonder why this is done. (Changing the header isn't an offense, but
> >  one can still "hmm" at why so much effort is done just for this.)
> 
> Because Libav headers stating "this is libav" is not true after they are
> merged, and keeping them would be also inconsistent, and people tend to
> forget changing it?
> 

Yeah that FATE test is pretty useful when doing merges, it's easily
forgettable.

-- 
Clément B.

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