> Vincent Snijders <[email protected]> hat am 27. Juni 2013 um 13:30
> geschrieben:
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>  2013/6/27 Juha Manninen <[email protected]
><mailto:[email protected]> >
>    > > Looking at issue #24662, Cyrax has studied lot's of code for the patch.
>Cool!
> >    I was not happy with the data structure, I believe it is better now.
> >    I removed the generics type TTreeNodeList and replaced it with TList.
> >    It's only purpose was to prevent type-casts but they are now needed
> >    anyways.
> >
> >    *** Please all developers add the tracker issue number and name of the
> >    patch author to a commit message when such info exists! ***

Some years ago I did that, but then we had to change the license and there were
some strange "copyright" laws in Germany and other countries.
Basically, if you add a svn comment that a patch was from a person, you grant
that person the right to veto all license issues and the right to withdraw his
patch. Some countries have a "fair use" clause that allows to ignore rights for
small patches.
Germany does not have a "fair use" clause, in fact, German has no word for
"fair".
So it is no problem to add a name to the contributors list, but it can be a
problem to name someone for a specific patch.

It's ridiculous. I know.

   
>  AFAIK, svn doesn't make any distinction between committer and author.


Mattias

 

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