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

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it some uber cool programming technique that requires splitting
> _every_ function into a separate source file?

Maintenability ? 
Lesser change of conflicts on merge / rebase ?
Faster incremental rebuilds ?
 
> 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.

Why not just having it all in one AUTHORS file ?

If someone's interested in an in-depth analysis - `git log`
might help ...

cu
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