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    Remove all Author(s): lines from source file headers · 60046283
    Daniel P. Berrangé authored
    
    
    In many files there are header comments that contain an Author:
    statement, supposedly reflecting who originally wrote the code.
    In a large collaborative project like libvirt, any non-trivial
    file will have been modified by a large number of different
    contributors. IOW, the Author: comments are quickly out of date,
    omitting people who have made significant contribitions.
    
    In some places Author: lines have been added despite the person
    merely being responsible for creating the file by moving existing
    code out of another file. IOW, the Author: lines give an incorrect
    record of authorship.
    
    With this all in mind, the comments are useless as a means to identify
    who to talk to about code in a particular file. Contributors will always
    be better off using 'git log' and 'git blame' if they need to  find the
    author of a particular bit of code.
    
    This commit thus deletes all Author: comments from the source and adds
    a rule to prevent them reappearing.
    
    The Copyright headers are similarly misleading and inaccurate, however,
    we cannot delete these as they have legal meaning, despite being largely
    inaccurate. In addition only the copyright holder is permitted to change
    their respective copyright statement.
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarErik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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