[GRASS5] Jan's copyright notice ++

[Eric Mitchell]

In my experience, the $Log$ tags mostly get in the way
of any perusing of the source code.  Unless someone 
takes the time to trim them, you can quickly end up 
with a log section longer than the actual source in the 
module.  As soon as someone trims the file, you lose 
some of the history you might have wanted to retain.  
Also, anytime you want to do a cvs diff between 
revisions, you get a lot of diffs that aren't relevant 
to the source code mods.

It's possible to convince CVS to retain the history 
associated with the files.  CVS is, after all, just
serving RCS format files.  By copying the ,v files
to the new repository, the new files will retain their
history, and a "cvs log" on them will give prior log
messages.  

> > Without any experience with this problem, I would recommend that we do
> > not use the $Log$ keyword to avoid what could be major headaches in the
> > future given the size of Grass. Am I being paranoid? What do people
> > think?

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