----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Swaney" <[email protected]> > I do not remember the exact circumstances, but we had a situation > before where some corporation wanted an attribution notice put in the > UI before they would contribute code. The answer was no.
Do you remember what the objection was? Note that we aren't asking to be attributed more prominently than other contributors; just on the same page. Nor are we asking for a logo to be displayed on the web site. I think attribution in a place that users can see is a fair trade for code contribution. Attribution in the release notes is good (thanks Tom, I didn't know about that page), but that means you become invisible in the next release. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Campbell Barton" <[email protected]> > re 1) The contributors are free to add in their own attribution in the > patch, perhaps it would help to formalize this, though the few times > I've had to deal with this a line in the header assigning copyright > was ok. > So don't mind either way. I think it would be good to formalise this, particularly to include the date that the contributions were made. > > Personally, I am not sure of the value of asserting copyright over > > code that is GPL'ed. > > In practice probably not much though it does mean if we want to add > some GPL exception like we did for the BGE or one day move to GPLv3, > copyright holders need to agree, Yes, one thing attribution does is make it easier to track who owns what. And it really is an incentive to contribute. Cheers, Alex -- Alex Fraser Software Engineer The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
