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Murray Altheim commented on JSPWIKI-589:
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Andrew, I tend to agree that ASF's policy is unfortunate. The issue of credit
is mitigated somewhat by inclusion in the NOTICE or README file, but that does
eliminate the connection between name and class, whatever its pros and cons. To
know that a certain person was the original designer of a complicated component
is valuable information, no matter how many people have subsequently touched
that code, and I suppose with my library hat on I tend to object to the
destruction of information.
Earlier I'd sent a message to Janne regarding this and I include a relevant
portion here:
> [...]
> If I am included in the list of those considered as not contributing
> to the code base (which has for many months been the case), you
> might understand that the time and energy I spend on contributing to
> open source projects is not my own to determine, and has of late been
> focused on a number of other projects, with our current use of JSPWiki
> in a maintenance mode. We're also waiting until the newer 3.0 platform
> stabilises before considering further work. I'm not in a position to
> contribute my personal time to the project as I'm time-wise fully
> committed.
>
> All of the above said, this project has my explicit permission to
> remove any existing tags containing my name.
Murray
> Remove @author-tags from code
> -----------------------------
>
> Key: JSPWIKI-589
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-589
> Project: JSPWiki
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Janne Jalkanen
> Assignee: Harry Metske
> Fix For: Graduating, 3.0
>
>
> To quote ASF Board resolution from May 2004:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-dev/200402.mbox/%[email protected]%3e
> {quote}
> * In conjunction with the the discussion about relicensing and some
> copyright issues, the Board is establishing an official policy in this
> area:
> - each and every file must have exactly *one* Copyright line, specifying
> The Apache Software Foundation. additional individual or corporate
> copyrights are not allowed.
> (of course, binary files or certain restrictively formatted files
> cannot include the copyright and license, but the copyright/license
> header should be in everything possible)
> - for contributions of entire files/packages, it is permissible to
> include a section saying something along the lines of "originally
> written by ...". this text should occur *after* the copyright and
> license header.
> - author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in
> establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our
> committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative
> development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications
> around the use of author tags
> - it is quite acceptable and encouraged to recognize developers' efforts
> in a CHANGES file, or some other descriptive file which is associated
> with the overall PMC or release rather than individual files.
> {quote}
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