> Martin <[email protected]> hat am 27. Juni 2013 um 14:57 geschrieben: > > > On 27/06/2013 12:52, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > > >> Vincent Snijders <[email protected]> hat am 27. Juni 2013 um 13:30 > >> geschrieben: > >> > >> > >> > >> 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. > > > > > > Are you sure this is based on the name being in the commit message? > > I know laws like this exist, but I thought it applies to all contributed > code, never mind, if the contribution is documented in some form or > not. Besides if patches come via mantis, then there also is documentation.
True. It still makes it simpler to change single files or directories. > This is way many projects ask contributes to sign some form of agreement. Yes, but when we change the license we have to ask to sign everyone again. I don't make want to make a big fuss about it. I just pointed out, that the American way to name contributors has a different law effect in other countries. And since there were some ridiculous cases in Germany, I chose the safe way. I can add the contributors again, if you want. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
