Re: Proper attribution of patches

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:

> I see only minor inconsitency on his part, that the original commit of
> that code didn't attribute it to its author in the CVS logs, while at
> least some other commits do note authors of patches.  However, he didn't
> explicitly take credit for it, like you did in the ChangeLog, and his

um, no.  What I explicitly took credit for was spending the better part of
two working days filtering through the differences to see which ones were
needed to build cygwin/X.

> 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.

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

done.

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