Martin van den Bemt wrote:
Well, I ask you... if anybody can figure out who wrote whatever code
anyway, what difference is it if you put in an @author tag or not? It
amounts to appending information that is available anyway, right?
Author tags imply ownership, commits don't.
<sigh>
I really really don't think so, Martin. I don't even think this is
something that is subject to respectable disagreement. What you're
saying is just plain wrong.
If I work for Sun and I write code on company time time, the code
belongs to Sun. It's their intellectual property. That my name is on an
@author tag, because I, in fact, did write the code in question, is a
completely separate issue.
For example, I just (more or less at random) eyeballed some JDK source
code. I'm looking at java/util/ArrayList.java. There are two author
tags, Josh Bloch and Neil Gafter. The code is Copyright, Sun Microsystems.
Similarly, all the source code to these ASF projects state clearly that
the copyright holder is ASF. In these cases, the situation on authorship
vs. ownership is completely clear.
Jonathan Revusky
--
lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/
Mvgr,
Martin
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