Re: Credits for imported files
Uwe Brauer writes:
>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz(a)gnu.org>
writes:
>> 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).
This is too much effort to ask of somebody else -- a person who thinks
it should be done, should do it themselves. If it's fairly easy to
find a main author, I agree, that's worth adding to the file itself
(despite the typical Emacs practice -- Emacs has a separate file,
AUTHORS IIRC, for attributing contributions). If an author shows up
and requests credit, that's fine too, you should add them. (Perhaps
in European law you have to, I don't understand the special "moral
rights of authors" very well.) Trawling the Emacs changelogs, no, you
needn't go that far (but if you want to I encourage you to credit
those authors in the file).
However, there is a real problem with the file you submitted in a
separate post: the copyright notice(s) seem to be missing. Since
it's apparently in GNU Emacs, most of it is probably copyright FSF.
If you mixed with another file, there may be other copyright holders.
Transforming to a different encoding and the other small changes you
made as I understand it are not copyrightable, so you shouldn't add
yourself. (If I misunderstand your contribution, let me know.)
Anyway, please restore any applicable copyright notices (or just post
them here).
Steve
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