[PATCH] Revert "Add copyright notices"

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Wed Mar 11 16:26:09 UTC 2020


On 11/03/2020 16:50, Joel Sherrill wrote:

> Proclaimed may not be the English word you mean. What do you think you 
> are saying?
>
> We built a spreadsheet analyzing all contributions to the 
> documentation based on source code logs. The original core 
> documentation was entirely written by OAR. Soit was no surprise that 
> at that point most of the documentation had still been written by OAR. 
> Only a handful of other side ever submitted any documentation 
> additions. That was primarily Gedare, Chris and Sebastian. We added 
> those copyright notices to reflect the submissions we identified. The 
> copyright notices in the texinfo files may not have been updated 
> properly but OAR never asserted ownership of those submissions. We all 
> were just sloppy.
>
> The addition of these notices reflected what we decided then. I don't 
> see taking these out.
>
> That's compounded by a poor choice of English which makes it sound 
> malicious on OAR's part
Sorry for the wording. It was not my intention to put OAR into a 
malicious framing. I am not sure how we deal with attributions of 
contributions before 2016.


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