If some copyright is wrong or incomplete then we can just fix it and close that bug report?
> Gesendet: Samstag, 10. Dezember 2022 um 00:40 Uhr > Von: "andy pugh" <bodge...@gmail.com> > An: "EMC developers" <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > Betreff: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Bug#1025433: Copyright issue > > For some reason this was not sent to emc-developers. > > Clearly, for reasons of his own this chap does not want LinuxCNC in Debian. > > Frankly, I am OK with this. We haven't been in before and all my machine > tools work just fine. > > This is not a fight I want to fight. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Adam Ant <adam...@engineer.com> > Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 23:23 > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Bug#1025433: Copyright issue > To: andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> > Cc: <1025...@bugs.debian.org> > > > > Source: linuxcnc > Severity serious > > > > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2022 at 1:36 AM > From: "andy pugh" <bodge...@gmail.com> > To: "EMC developers" <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>, "Adam Ant" < > adam...@engineer.com> > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Bug#1025433: Copyright issue > > > > On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 at 00:42, Adam Ant <adam...@engineer.com[mailto: > adam...@engineer.com]> wrote: > > > > The correct course of action is to ask Paolo Mantegazza rather than > debating symantics. > You can not just pull substantial chunks of code from one source and then > claim that you wrote it. > But Paulo didn't write it _either_ > > If you go back in time to 2003: > https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/07bc1e161f834d8b192fe279819261294e5fe150/src/rtapi/procfs_macros.h[https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/07bc1e161f834d8b192fe279819261294e5fe150/src/rtapi/procfs_macros.h] > and compare that to a 1999 version of the RTAI file, the only line in > common is "#include <linux/proc_fs.h>" > > At some point _both_ files included a chunk of work from Erwin Rol: > > // proc print macros - Contributed by: Erwin Rol (er...@muffin.org[mailto: > er...@muffin.org]) > > _Most_ of both files was written by Erwin Rol. But both files existed > previously, and separately, as far as I can tell looking back in both > archives. > > > Regardless of who wrote the original code, you can not take a file, hack it > a little and then claim sole copyright yourself. > It brings the Debian project in to disrepute if they host the package. > > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed > for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
