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Re: Spelling of contributor names

From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx dot de>, Alistair Francis <alistair23 at gmail dot com>, Stepan Golosunov <stepan at golosunov dot pp dot ru>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb dot de>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 07:58:41 +0200
Subject: Re: Spelling of contributor names
References: <20190820132152.24100-1-zackw@panix.com> <20190820132152.24100-4-zackw@panix.com> <470439858.757909.1566320907353@poczta.nazwa.pl> <alpine.DEB.2.21.1908201730130.16501@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <1994574547.803521.1566466959673@poczta.nazwa.pl> <87tva9y1gh.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <d18e8564-69c8-0519-f9d7-75056cd41e93@cs.ucla.edu> <alpine.DEB.2.21.1908232041570.19272@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <alpine.DEB.2.21.1908232050380.19272@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <8f1d9b99-f916-b563-7865-b2832ca06b99@cs.ucla.edu>

* Paul Eggert:

> Joseph Myers wrote:
>> (While we want to move away from Contributed by lines and put those
>> credits in contrib.texi instead, removal isn't an option when the name
>> appears in a copyright notice rather than a Contributed by line, which
>> applies in at least one case.)
>
> Yes, thanks for mentioning these glitches. I installed the attached
> to fix them.
>
> I'm afraid we're stuck with the ASCIIfied spellings in the old
> copyright notice in sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/sys/user.h, as
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-03/msg00293.html> says
> the file must be ASCII, and the file's copyright notice requires
> that we keep the contributors' names. This is merely an annoyance of
> course, and I assume any future contributors in this situation won't
> mind ASCIIfying their names either.

Please restore the Contributed By lines as well.  We should not
discriminate against authors based on the preferred spelling of their
names.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Spelling of contributor names
  - From: Paul Eggert

References:
- [PATCH 00/12] Y2038 preparation: use clock_[gs]ettime to implement the other time-getting and -setting functions
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- [PATCH 03/12] Don’t use the argument to time.
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: [PATCH 03/12] Don’t use the argument to time.
  - From: Rafal Luzynski
- Re: [PATCH 03/12] Donʼt use the argument to time.
  - From: Joseph Myers
- Re: [PATCH 03/12] Don’t use the argument to time.
  - From: Rafal Luzynski
- Re: [PATCH 03/12] Don’t use the argument to time.
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Spelling of contributor names (was: [PATCH 03/12] Don’t use the argument to time)
  - From: Paul Eggert
- Re: Spelling of contributor names (was: [PATCH 03/12] Donʼt use the argument to time)
  - From: Joseph Myers
- Re: Spelling of contributor names (was: [PATCH 03/12] Donʼt use the argument to time)
  - From: Joseph Myers
- Re: Spelling of contributor names (was: [PATCH 03/12] Don’t use the argument to time)
  - From: Paul Eggert

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