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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