Mattias Gaertner schrieb:
*** 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.
I cannot find such legal stuff nor license conditions.
Some countries have a "fair use" clause that allows to ignore rights for small patches.
Patches are not self-contained work, and consequently are not protected as such.
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.
I see no problems. The only question is about ownership of a software project - is it the first contributor only, or all contributors together? In practice it doesn't make any difference, because free software licenses grant *everybody* the right to modify the software. It's only polite to name the contributors, not an obligation.
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