[darcs-devel] [patch704] replace copyright message with module doc

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On 25/01/2012 13:58, Will Langstroth wrote:

>     Seeing the authors' names is important to me, especially when it turns
>     out that I know them from somewhere else and later realize they're
>     contributors to "my" project, too, or I've respected them for the
>     quality of their XEmacs contributions and someday get to meet them in
>     person.
> 
> 
> That's more of a reason I can understand. With a permissive license, you
> can put a list of contributors in the root directory, and you're done. I
> suppose I could email David Roundy and see if he could be convinced to
> change licenses.

I think most of us would like to change to BSD3 if we could, as most
Haskell libraries are now under that licence and it would facilitate
factoring out the bits of darcs that make sense independently. It'd need
asking a lot more people than David though to complete the job, though.

Cheers,

Ganesh