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Re: Changes to "Contribution Checklist" -- Format of the contribution.
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:35:20 +0000
- Subject: Re: Changes to "Contribution Checklist" -- Format of the contribution.
- References: <187fa6e8-11fc-e33a-daa1-51d0aa3962f7@redhat.com> <87y36iy9mm.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <29a94078-d05d-e29c-8009-e905bfb2bf31@redhat.com> <87ftspjkao.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <alpine.DEB.2.21.1902151349210.19658@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <87o96edbe8.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > I think we should remove the existing "Contributed by" statements (that
> > avoids them appearing in new files people copy from old ones) - but before
> > removing such a statement we need to make sure the names in question are
> > properly credited in contrib.texi.
>
> I don't want to make such changes because as far as I know, for some
> contributors at least, we cannot legally remove them unilaterally
> because these authors have a right to be named as such, something that
What's the basis for such a right to be named in the source file (as
opposed to in contrib.texi, ChangeLogs, etc.)?
(In UK law, the right to be identified as author of a work does not apply
to a computer program anyway.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com