From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Hanquez Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4 of 7] ocaml: resynchronise uuid library with xen-api-libs.hg Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:44:54 +0000 Message-ID: <4CE53BE6.1070800@eu.citrix.com> References: <05cf9251ac48e7abeabd.1290077436@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <1290079965.22729.211.camel@qabil.uk.xensource.com> <1290083222.31507.5290.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1290083222.31507.5290.camel-o4Be2W7LfRlXesXXhkcM7miJhflN2719@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-api-bounces-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org Errors-To: xen-api-bounces-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org To: xen-devel-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org Cc: Ian Campbell , "xen-api-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 18/11/10 12:27, Ian Campbell wrote: > I literally did a cp from xen-api-libs.hg. AIUI the two modules have a > shared ancestry with the xen-unstable version being imported from a > snapshot of xen-api-libs at some point. It looks like the copyright > headers were added to both trees independently after (or as part of) the > import and so the two versions have diverged. > > I'll redo this as a less automated import and retain the authorship > statements in xen-unstable.hg -- doing otherwise was unintentional but > still impolite, sorry about that Vincent. > no worries no offenses taken, there's multiples versions of the same file, with different headers unfortunately. authorship is mostly advisory: could be useful to track the author when wondering about a piece of code, or a design decision. Otherwise it's not bound to anything useful legally AFAIK. -- Vincent