[Cin] Working on adding GPL license attribution for all program files

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

Monumental!

ср, 15 февр. 2023 г., 05:30 Phyllis Smith <phylsmith2017 at gmail.com>:

> Despite differing opinions, I have added GPL headers to any program.C,
> header.h, and include,inc files where missing to the best of my ability
> with attribution when clear to do so.  It should be at least 90% correct in
> the guicast, cinelerra, and individual plugins/themes directories.  Not
> sure it is of much value, seeing as how there aren't many comments and so
> many of the programmers are no longer around, but the intent is good.  With
> the addition of the "Authors and Contributors" to the manual at the end of
> last month, hopefully little history will be lost.  As always, we can
> correct any mistakes.
>
> for seeing this window you must have successful compile, and if compile
>> was not successful you look into  source files ( I think this might be part
>> of rationale about putting them there ). Each source file usually worked on
>> by some developers, so knowing who works (worked) on specific part is also
>> important (when you have 1000+ files). Putting ALL program authors in EACH
>> file obviously wrong, but making sure relevant names appear in files you
>> get right after unpacking source considered good tone....
>>
>
> Caveats:
> 1) Some files just had generic "Cinelerra/Adam" attributes added/modified
> since he is the real author and did not know who else to add, or other
> person did not care to have their name added too.   This was the case for
> many files that William Morrow worked on in the optimistic hope that the
> original author would pick up the changes in the future.
>

Note, you absolutely can few copyright lines in one file if many authors
worked on it, so  having Adam and William co-exist as authors should be
totally ok.

see for example head of

thirdparty/ffmpeg-5.1/libavcodec/hevcdec.c


2) Confusion on the Cuda plugins and LV2 program's authorship is kind of
> messy so I just tried to match between the .C, .h, and .inc files where
> some attribution currently existed.
> 3) Even if the only CV change added to GG version was "ifdef
> HAVE_FIREWIRE" and a matching "endif", I still added the "Copyright (C)
> 2003-2016 Cinelerra CV contributors" line after Adam's copyright line
> because it took some work to discover the need for the addition.
>
> TASK COMPLETE unless notified otherwise. ...Phyllis
>
>
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