[gpm] What is going on with GPM sources/copyright?

[Nico Schottelius]

Dear Dimitry,

Dmitry Torokhov [Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:42:39AM -0800]:
> [Resending as mailing list appears to be closed for non-subscribers.]

Too much spam, sorry.

> After a few years I happen to take a look at GPM sources and the only words
> that came to my mind is "WTF?". What is the point of all this code
> shuffling? Is it some uber cool programming technique that requires splitting
> _every_ function into a separate source file?

Well, it's part of the fight against thousands of lines within one file.
You can argue for files with similar content, but the current source just
grew too big.

> More importantly, why copyright notices of all former contributors have been
> stripped off once the code was moved? It is one thing to add your own
> copyright string (although even that requires the change to be copyrightable
> and not a mechanical transformation) but claiming sole copyright over
> entire body of code it something quite different.

I'm sorry, I somewhere stopped to continue the process of cleaning up.
My idea was to cleanup the files and re-add the correct copyright after
being done.

> Note that I don't claim to have copyright interest in GPM anymore since
> all my work has been removed during 1.20.2 -> 1.20.1 rollback. I wonder
> why, by the way, since it implemented fairly decent and full support of
> Linux event interface. I suppose Explorer PS/2 emulation from mousedev
> is good enough but I think we might be dropping mousedev (at least not
> enable it by default) in not so distant future.

Well, need to have a look at the current status sometime soon anyway..

Nico

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