Re: Mentioning sponsors in the source code?

The idea has merit, how about seeing it this way:

	patch -> AUTHORS  ( one's name in lights )
	money -> SPONSORS ( company visibility via PR etc. )
	all   -> DELTA    ( specific per release )

...?

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On Saturday 20 November 2010 11:58:07 Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:59:21AM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > similar to the AUTHORS file I wonder if it would be right to collect
> > the companies and individuals that in some way other than patches
> > contributed to the development of perl?
> >
> > e.g. a SPONSORS file that would contain names of
> > companies and individuals that contributed money or developer time
> > or other resources.
>
> Historically we've acknowledged grants and suchlike in the perldelta file
> for that release. I'm not sure why, but I feel more comfortable doing it
> that way, associating benefactors with the releases they helped happen, and
> in the installed documentation.
>
> Nicholas Clark

• Mentioning sponsors in the source code? by Gabor Szabo
• Re: Mentioning sponsors in the source code? by Nicholas Clark
• Re: Mentioning sponsors in the source code? by Richard Foley