Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
A lot of files were missing copyright field in the header and
the Blender Foundation contributed to them in a sense of bug
fixing and general maintenance.
This change makes it explicit that those files are at least
partially copyrighted by the Blender Foundation.
Note that this does not make it so the Blender Foundation is
the only holder of the copyright in those files, and developers
who do not have a signed contract with the foundation still
hold the copyright as well.
Another aspect of this change is using SPDX format for the
header. We already used it for the license specification,
and now we state it for the copyright as well, following the
FAQ:
https://reuse.software/faq/
This container is type safe and contains a few nice optimizations,
although they shouldn't make a big difference here in practice. The
hashing now uses our default hashing method which reduces code
complexity and seems to perform slightly better in my tests.
For a Heist shot with a highly complex library overrides hierarchy in
the Outliner this reduces the tree building time from around 25 to 23.6
seconds here. However the main design change for performance is yet to
come, all this is just general code refactoring (which at least
shouldn't make performance worse).
- Turn storage into an object with "automatic" memory management (RAII)
so freeing is implicit and reliable.
- Turn functions into member functions, to have the data and its
functions close together with controlled access that increases
encapsulation and hiding implementation details.
- Use references to indicate null is not an expected value.
- Related minor cleanup (comments, use const etc.)
Couldn't spot any changes in performance.
Campbell Barton
Sergey Sharybin
Julian Eisel