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

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

чт, 5 янв. 2023 г., 23:19 Phyllis Smith <phylsmith2017 at gmail.com>:

> I don't know anything about License and GPL but I think that in
>>> Cinelerra-GG there is the About window where you can write all the
>>> Developers/Authors you want, without including them in every Cinelerra's
>>> file (.h, .C, .inc,...).
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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....
>>
>
> *Zero* occurrences of GPL statements in Cinelerra-CV of the type
> "Copyright...2016 Contributors-CV" -- no one took the time to bother about
> updating to include the CV Contributors.  I think the Archived Mailing List
> was good enough and very thorough and still is.
> *Five* occurrences of individuals specifically including GPLs in code
> they wrote WITHOUT including Adam as author of directory as shown below:
>

you do authorship per-file, not per-directory....

this one was written in cin-cv tree ....


/* (cinelerra/yuvstream.C)
>  * CINELERRA
>  * Copyright (C) 2004 Nathan Kurz
>  *
>  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>
> /*
>  * Cinelerra :: Blue Banana - color modification plugin for Cinelerra-CV
>  * Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Monty <monty at xiph.org>
>  *
>  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>
> /*
>  * C41 plugin for Cinelerra
>  * Copyright (C) 2011 Florent Delannoy <florent at plui dot es>
>  *
>  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>
> /*
>  * GreyCStoration plugin for Cinelerra
>  * Copyright (C) 2013 Slock Ruddy
>  * Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Nicola Ferralis <feranick at hotmail dot com>
>  *
>  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>
> /*
>  * CINELERRA
>  * Copyright (C) 2007 Hermann Vosseler
>  *
>  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>
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