Bug#828830: ITP: licensecheck -- simple license checker for source files

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 21:21 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> ...speaking of previous authoring: April 20th, 2007, you changed 
> comments from
> 
>   "originally [...] from the KDE SDK"
> 
> to
> 
>   "originally [...] from the KDE SDK (by dfaure@kde.org)"
> 
> ...but it seems from my resurrecting old SVN commits that a) the person 
> referenced is David Faure <faure@kde.org> (no "d" in email address), and 
> that b) the script was not introduced by David Faure but instead by 
> Stefan Westerfeld <stefan@space.twc.de> (on Jan 28 2000).
> 
> Does it seem likely that you made a typo in the email?

It's possible. It's been rather a long time and I no longer have any
record of where I extracted the address from.

> Would you agree that it makes better sense to emphasize the _original_ author than the 
> (I guess) later maintainer?

If that's the case, sure. I don't recall seeing any name other than
Faure's at the time however.

Regards,

Adam