RFC: mailing list disclaimer in every source file

[Mark]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday 02 July 2012 18:16:53 Davide Bettio wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Sometimes it happens that somone writes to me to ask something
>> releated to plasma development. As a reply I usually point him to the
>> plasma mailing list, that's not a problem for me but there are some
>> plasma contributors that are not reachable anymore.
>> That might be a problem on the communication side so I think that we
>> should add a notice to every source file after the copyright
>> disclaimer that states that the best thing to ask anything related to
>> plasma should be to send a mail to the plasma mailing list.
> what gives you the feeling that people send you the mail because of the
> license header in the source code? I ask because I received a mail last week
> where the user got it through bugzilla. Also more likely than the source code
> is probably the .desktop file and the about data shown inside the add-widget
> explorer.
>
> If we add some boilerplate to the author list of the license header it would
> probably (?) break the GPL requirements? On the other hand putting it below is
> useless as people would not look there.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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When i'm searching for an author i usually look in the source files or
in the git commits to see the last few persons commiting.