If these people have comitter status, they could loose it 
quickly. Why didn't they just append their name...
 

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ceki Gülcü [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 8:43 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Theft of authorship
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>Hello,
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>This comes up from time to time and usually has me jump 
>through the roof. Good willing contributors, take a piece of  
>existing log4j code, modify or enhance it, but remove the 
>previous author's names.  They then post their code as if it 
>was their own. Regardless of how much they modified the code, 
>by removing the previous author's names they are committing 
>theft. I find this very disturbing. What do others think? What 
>can we do to combat this phenomenon? Regards, Ceki
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