Copyright header for changes to imported code (Re: [PATCH v4] Make bindresvport() function to multithread-safe)

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Thu Nov 22 19:22:00 GMT 2012


On 11/22/2012 09:02 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>      Copyright (c) 2010, other-copyright-holder
>      Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

A minor point:

The most-recent copyright holder should come first.
This is the typical usage.  It is more convenient
for the reader, who typically is interested in the
most recent-changes first.  Sort of like a ChangeLog.

I updated the wiki accordingly.



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