Re: Credits for imported files
> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz(a)gnu.org> writes:
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub(a)mat.ucm.es>
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <uwe.brauer(a)xemacs.org>, xemacs-patches(a)xemacs.org
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:42:19 +0200
>
> However in the hebrew.el file itself there is no author mentioned.
Then I probably should ask you where did you get the file you
modified. The author _is_ mentioned in the file that is in the GNU
Emacs repository, since July 2011. Since you submitted the file to
XEmacs much later, I wonder where did you find the file without that
note.
I checked hebrew.el in my GNU emacs24 installation and you are right the
author is there. I don't remember exactly, but I think one problem was
the coding. I was advised to use iso-2022-7bit, encoding and there was
an incompatibility between GNU emacs and Xemacs. So I think I ended up
copying code of the GNU emacs hebrew.el into an older hebrew.el file I
had in my Xemacs directory (obviously without the author in the
header). Whether this version is also from GNU emacs or corresponds to
an older Xemacs version from 21.4 I do not remember, most likely it was
an old GNU emacs version.
> May I suggest to add it right there and not bury it in some
> ChangeLog files? That would avoid these sort of misunderstandings.
This file does have the attribution inside it. However, in many
other
cases, certainly when only a few functions are copied, the credits are
only in the ChangeLogs. My suggestion was to also grep those in order
to find the original contributor(s).
Well but then you would not name these authors in the corresponding
files but want use to do so?
Thanks.
I submit a changed hebrew file.
Uwe
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