Hi Angel, > This is opensource world dude, can you see it?, so forget those > "autorship" and "license" of those PKGBUILD, plus, in many cases, many > of the packages went from one people to another. Btw I don't know why > people refers to packages when we are talking about aurballs > containing PKGBUILD, this is different from a package.
I feared the "authorship" word may get too much of attention. Its a sad result of ugly missuse of todays. The authorship I meant -- and sorry for not making myself clear the first time -- is a relation of one who creates to the thing created, or of all who create that is too. No licence fees, nor revenues, nor copyright needed, nor asked for. Just simple A (+ B) created this PKGBUILD/package -- the difference now is unimportant. > As Ioni said, he kept the Contributor tag, I don't see the point of > whining if your work as a maintainer is recognized on that PKGBUILD > but I don't see the point of contributing expecting recognition, we > are humans, I know, but what can make you happier than the fact that > your work evolved and now you have opportunity to evolve with it too > (i.e maintaining new PKGBUILD and then applying to be a TU). I also think that keeping the contributor tag is right. And I also am happy when my PKGBUILD gets promoted to repo. Though I'd be happier if I heard from the TU first (than finding out some day accidentaly that the PKGBUILD is not in the AUR anymore but now in the [community] as mentioned somewhere here). It is not as much of my own happiness -- though it motivates one if he hears it from the TU not just finds out accidentaly -- as also of bothsides politeness. > We eventually show our respect to the author to notice him that we do > will move your package, Now with this I would be maximaly fine. > but it's arrogant and too stupid to pretend > that a TU or Dev have to `ask you for permission` I guess I see your point. This is too strong. Though there should be some kind of inner `I have to ask him` comming from one's human politenes. Like `I want to move foo to community, is it ok with you? By the way good job maintaining it.` Most of the time the answer would be `yes` of course, but this motivates one to contribute. And sometimes one would answer `I am planning to become TU soon and would like to maintain this, so would you wait with the adoption till my becoming TU is resolved?` Now that does motivate too, doesn't it? > <--- THIS IS > MADNESS, you aren't the owner of that PKGBUILD ! even if you wrote it > from scratch! the next thing after from asking for permission will be > "please pay me" .. so hell no. For myself I contribute to Arch because I feel in a way obliged to, as it is a great distro which gave me much. So I hope stuff I put into AUR makes Arch better and help others. I want no money for it, just polite human comunication of what is going on. By the way, thanx for baring with me, Nicky -- Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone (Joni Mitchell)
