I was comparing two modules today where one had obviously been cloned from the other and was surprised to find that the original author's @author annotation and name had been removed and the copyright dates adjusted to remove the original copyright date. DON'T DO THIS.
If you edit something, you hold a copyright on the derivative work that you've created, but the original author still holds their copyright on the original version. It's very important for the protection of our intellectual property that we know who worked on what and when. Sometimes we can reconstruct the provenance from the SVN logs, but with our 47 SVN repository scheme we lose the history every time something gets moved from one repository to another, making even this backup very fallable. Additionally, it's just bad manners to attempt to deprive someone of the credit that they are due. Seriously folks, this is important stuff. Don't screw around with things that potentially affect our intellectual property rights (or the rights of others). Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
