This allows UI scripts (saved in preferences) to access
os.* functions (non-sandboxed), while preventing other
scripts to do so.
Lua scripts that can run os commands can execute arbitrary
code on the system. While this is a nice feature, it can be
equally dangerous.
Copyright-holder and year information is extracted from git log.
git history begins in 2005. So (C) from 1998..2005 is lost. Also some
(C) assignment of commits where the committer didn't use --author.