Thanks.<br><br>Does it make sense to include copyright notices for each change? If they build up to the point people ignore them, if they aren't already ignoring them ;-), then it negates any value from having them there in the first place.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 July 2010 15:39, strk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:strk@keybit.net">strk@keybit.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 02:38:52PM -0400, Andrew Ross wrote:<br>
> Thanks for the explanation Paul. Very much appreciated.<br>
><br>
> My apologies for prolonging this thread with one more question. In terms of<br>
> coding style, does it make sense to have the copyright notices for each<br>
> change in the code as this example? Should copyright notices from previous<br>
> modifications ever be removed? Please point me at the style guidelines if<br>
> this is already defined. Thanks again.<br>
<br>
</div>There's no official style guidelines as far as I know<br>
(but could be wrong). What I try to do is follow the style<br>
I find in the file being edited.<br>
I started with TAB indenting for instance, but as others prefer<br>
spaces we're somewhere slowly moving there, for new code.<br>
You'll find a mix of TAB and spaces but hopefully only in different<br>
files.<br>
Changing the style of files has a bad effect on history tracking<br>
and regression debugging.<br>
<br>
About copyright, old notices shouldnt' be removed unless<br>
you're sure nothing is left from the original author.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
--strk;<br>
<br>
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