[PATCH] Remove Roland McGrath et al. from libc.so banner

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 07/27/2017 08:33 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> 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.)
 
I agree, removal of existing "Contributed by" should involve a human
and proper attribution in contrib.texi for such contributions.

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Cheers,
Carlos.