Follow-up Comment #9, bug #44768 (project groff): > 0. ego-less programming is nice, but a piece of software *needs* an author. > Whom shall I contact in case of difficulties?
I agree to a point, I still think Michael is the Author. The author of fixes (minor or portability), are a lot like "copy editors" or "book editors", sure we make the product better, but we are not the one doing the hard initial work of authoring. Michael and my writing styles are quite different ;-) Its Michael's work, I'm just trying to help others enjoy it. > 0. The FSF is not (yet) able to properly handle patches that are put into the > public domain – does this exist at all in the Australian jurisdiction? We > simply have to wait until your papers are signed, sent back, and processed by > the FSF, which certainly takes a few weeks. Sorry for the inconvenience. Unknown, IANAL. Weeks is an electronic age - so sad, the law just has not moved with the times, but than that is always the case. Very interesting point about public domain. I was just of the assumption that if a modify a work, and give that work back to author and expressly state they do not have to acknowledge my efforts and may claim the work as their own, should they see fit, that would suffice, but the law is an ...! (you read that as "another matter entirely" I'm sure) ;-) Lets hope they accepted scanned signed copies at least, and are not going to make be sign something longer than "War and Peace" ;-) > 0. The canonical reference for sh compatibility issues the automake manual. > See > > https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Portable-Shell.html#Portable-Shell Yes a very good reference which I came across again only recently. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44768> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ bug-groff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff
