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Re: Copyright header for changes to imported code (Re: [PATCH v4]Make bindresvport() function to multithread-safe)
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at systemhalted dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>,Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Peng Haitao <penght at cn dot fujitsu dot com>,Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:22:30 -0800
- Subject: Re: Copyright header for changes to imported code (Re: [PATCH v4]Make bindresvport() function to multithread-safe)
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On 11/22/2012 09:02 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Copyright (c) 2010, other-copyright-holder
> Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
A minor point:
The most-recent copyright holder should come first.
This is the typical usage. It is more convenient
for the reader, who typically is interested in the
most recent-changes first. Sort of like a ChangeLog.
I updated the wiki accordingly.