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    Remove "Contributed by" lines · 30891f35
    Siddhesh Poyarekar authored
    We stopped adding "Contributed by" or similar lines in sources in 2012
    in favour of git logs and keeping the Contributors section of the
    glibc manual up to date.  Removing these lines makes the license
    header a bit more consistent across files and also removes the
    possibility of error in attribution when license blocks or files are
    copied across since the contributed-by lines don't actually reflect
    reality in those cases.
    
    Move all "Contributed by" and similar lines (Written by, Test by,
    etc.) into a new file CONTRIBUTED-BY to retain record of these
    contributions.  These contributors are also mentioned in
    manual/contrib.texi, so we just maintain this additional record as a
    courtesy to the earlier developers.
    
    The following scripts were used to filter a list of files to edit in
    place and to clean up the CONTRIBUTED-BY file respectively.  These
    were not added to the glibc sources because they're not expected to be
    of any use in future given that this is a one time task:
    
    https://gist.github.com/siddhesh/b5ecac94eabfd72ed2916d6d8157e7dc
    https://gist.github.com/siddhesh/15ea1f5e435ace9774f485030695ee02
    
    
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarCarlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
    30891f35
    Remove "Contributed by" lines
    Siddhesh Poyarekar authored
    We stopped adding "Contributed by" or similar lines in sources in 2012
    in favour of git logs and keeping the Contributors section of the
    glibc manual up to date.  Removing these lines makes the license
    header a bit more consistent across files and also removes the
    possibility of error in attribution when license blocks or files are
    copied across since the contributed-by lines don't actually reflect
    reality in those cases.
    
    Move all "Contributed by" and similar lines (Written by, Test by,
    etc.) into a new file CONTRIBUTED-BY to retain record of these
    contributions.  These contributors are also mentioned in
    manual/contrib.texi, so we just maintain this additional record as a
    courtesy to the earlier developers.
    
    The following scripts were used to filter a list of files to edit in
    place and to clean up the CONTRIBUTED-BY file respectively.  These
    were not added to the glibc sources because they're not expected to be
    of any use in future given that this is a one time task:
    
    https://gist.github.com/siddhesh/b5ecac94eabfd72ed2916d6d8157e7dc
    https://gist.github.com/siddhesh/15ea1f5e435ace9774f485030695ee02
    
    
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarCarlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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