[Xcb] [PATCH libxcb 1/3] Copyrights: add copyright statement from xcb_windefs.h

[Gaetan Nadon]

On 14-03-26 08:02 PM, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
>
>> This seems fine, though there are many more authors not listed here.
>> (It's sad that this can't be handled by just pointing to git history.)
> I see what you mean. The role of the COPYING file is very specific. It
> contains the aggregation of all Copyright statements in the source
> code. It is not a list of authors or contributors. Authors must write
> the license text in the source code to protect their work.
>
> One way for a module to acknowledge other authors and contributions is
> to list them in the README file. The X Window System does this by
> having a section "Attributions/Acknowledgements/Credits
> <http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xorg-docs/ReleaseNotes.html#Attributions_Acknowledgements_Credits>"
> in the Release Notes.

I forgot about the AUTHORS file which is suggested by Autotools. There
are 50 xorg modules using it. Plenty of examples to look at.
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