Proper attribution of patches

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Tue Dec 23 22:23:00 GMT 2003


Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
> 

[snip]

>>announcement of new packages with those changes reflects the author
>>correctly.  I don't see Harold Hunt asking for his name to be on the
>>patch in any way, only the patch's author's name (the "members of the
>>Cygwin/X community" in the original mail).
> 
> 
> tsk - you ought to read those mailing list postings more critically.

Are you prepared to cite evidence that I asked for my name to be on the 
patch?  If not, that is libel and I am asking you to stop.

>>The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
>>ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
> 
> 
> done.

That was easy, wasn't it?

Harold



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