[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-589?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12746308#action_12746308
]
Craig Russell commented on JSPWIKI-589:
---------------------------------------
Hi Murray,
I think everyone knows that you are *not* included in the list of those
considered as not contributing. There are 27 names on the list, and eight (by
my count) current contributors, yourself included.
I think it's appropriate for the authors to be attributed, but the @author tags
just are not a good way to do it.
The @author tags are available in the svn history for those folks who want to
find authorship for some obscure piece of code. But I'd guess that a question
posed to jspwiki-dev will get an answer quicker than an individual post to the
original author (wherever the author might be presently).
But it is considered a "barrier to entry" for prospective patch writers who see
an author tag and think that they are not worthy of patching work by that
author.
Craig
> 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}
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
