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Re: [PATCH] Remove Roland McGrath et al. from libc.so banner
On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> We made good step forward by removing source 'Contributed by'
> entries, and we should continue progress in that direction.
We've not yet removed them from existing source files (just stopped adding
them in new files). Perhaps we should remove them from existing files
(especially given how often patches appear with a completely inaccurate
"Contributed by" because someone copied a random source file as the basis
of a new one).
(Note: some source files have "Contributed by" comments extending over
more than one source line; removal would need to allow for that rather
than just blindly removing the first line where the words "Contributed by"
appear. Also, if removing them, make sure the person named is
sufficiently credited in contrib.texi rather than being absent there or
only having a small unrepresentative set of their contributions
mentioned.)
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Joseph S. Myers
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