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On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 04:25:16PM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> In my years of examining FOSS code, I regularly find that developers,
> particularly when working under the DCO, do a terrible job at keeping
> file-by-file copyright inventory up-to-date.  The Linux project has
> disturbingly taken to *removing* all such file-by-file copyright notices from
> the source tree entirely, which is an over-correction and just as bad a
> mistake in the other direction.

That is factually incorrect.  per-file copyright notices are not removed
and in fact added by many (although not all contributors).  Updates are
often rather sloppy, though.