Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:55:40 +0200 | From | frantisek holop <> | Subject | Re: Wasting our Freedom |
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hmm, on Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:56:47AM -0400, Theodore Tso said that > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:29:48AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > Now if they'd fix the copyright message to only mention Reyk all would > > be good. > > It *does* mention Reyk, if you would bother to look. The thing which
the keyword is `only'. only = him and noone else (at the moment)
> Theo is kvetching about, and which apparently is enough to cause the > *BSD zombies to start attacking without actually _checking_ _for_ > _themselves_ is whether or not Jiri and Nick did enough to work so > they should have their names listed in the headers. In other words,
are you publicly stating that you have checked, and found the amount of work done justifying a (c) addition of not even one but 2 persons?
> all of the megabytes and megabhytes of flamewar is over these two > lines: > > > * Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> > > * Copyright (c) 2007 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> > > Petty, isn't it? Let's just say it's b.s. like this which is why, 16 > years ago, I decided to work with Linux instead of BSD.
so you don't mind if a couple of us go around adding say 10 lines of code to files you authored, and then put our copyrights under your name? good! i am glad to hear that. a bit of additional "undeserved credit" is always welcome anyway. would look good in my cv.
it is not just a bit of undeserved credit. the (c) owners will be asked in the future regarding any legal aspects of the files they hold copyrights to. i don't think those 2 gentlemen have earned that yet.
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