Proper attribution of patches

[Harold L Hunt II]

David Dawes wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:25:52PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
>>The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that 
>>Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas 
>>found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch.
>>
>>The CVS log message says:
>>    fixes for _XtInherit on cygwin.
>>
>>The hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG files says:
>>     XFree86 4.3.99.903 (xx December 2003)
>>     + 699. Fixes to build/run on cygwin (Thomas Dickey).
>>
>>I know that this patch was based at least in part (if not entirely) on 
>>Ralf Habacker's patch for the same, since it includes a more than twenty 
>>line comment from Ralf along with his name at the bottom:
>>
>>http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/Xt/Initialize.c.diff?r1=3.21&r2=3.22&f=h
>>
>>
>>Given the fact that XFree86 has shown little support for Cygwin in the 
>>past coupled with the fact that Cygwin/X is no longer associated with 
>>XFree86, I request that you take care to properly attribute patches from 
>>members of the Cygwin/X community.
> 
> 
> The only thing I have to add to this long thread is that I am
> confident that you will naturally take care to ensure that correct
> individual attributions will be made in the Cygwin changelog
> (wherever that may be maintained) for all changes that end up in
> your source tree either via direct integration or the import of
> XFree86 snapshots.

I'll do my part, as always.

Harold