On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Andi Jahja wrote: > > You missed the point, perhaps. > > The whole issue is not revolving the source file, > > but the declarations in the ChangeLog which pretends > > to the users that those changes were made by thou-self. > Not true. Users can READ the file and WILL SEE who's codes it is (in > this case: Przemek). Users will not refers to ChangeLog to seek who > wrote the codes, but to the FILEs. > Furthermore, AFAIR there is no rule which governs PPL for putting > credits.
In many cases the source code files does not have any copyright notice about the authors of modifications and extensions and you can check it only in the ChangeLog. I was working on nearly the whole Harbour core code and I do not used to leave in header of each touched source file copy of the ChangeLog entry with my copyrights. I thought that ChangeLog entries are enough. There are files were 90% of code is mine but they are copyrighted by someone else. Now in xHarbour there is no reference to original authors at all, f.e. few weeks ago Patrick asked what HB_STRTOEXP() does. It's my function and I checked it was copied from Harbour to xHarbour. I wrote a message to Patrick explaining what it does but can you tell me where is the information in the whole xHarbour repository that I'm the author of this code? If you want then you can find many other similar situations. F.e. can you tell me where in xHarbour source code is any information about original author of OSCodePage extension? If someone does not carefully watch Harbour repository then he cannot know the original authors or even what some code does and why it was added. xHarbour CVS does not contain any information about them. best regards, Przemek _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
