RFC: Properly stated origin of code contributions

[Alexander Berntsen]

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On 30/10/14 21:55, Austin Seipp wrote:
> Can we get a standardized copyright/comment header across all our 
> files? It seems as if every single file in the compiler (and RTS)
> has different header text, mentioning different people or groups,
> some from 10 years ago or more and others just recently added. This
> is somewhat related to this RFC but also somewhat not, I feel.
> 
> Ideally it would be nice if we could have, say, an AUTHORS.txt
> file containing the names of all those people who have committed to
> GHC (essentially like 'git shortlog -sn' shows), which we would ask
> users to add their name into, and then if we could standardize all
> the headers to follow a known convention, and give boilerplate for
> people to copy.
I posted a thread about this earlier, and the only response I got was
that it doesn't matter... For what it's worth I agree with you.

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Alexander
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