Hi, On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Kieran Kunhya <[email protected]> wrote:
> "You're throwing a blob at me without individual author's > contribution, I don't think that's > appropriate." > > You've decided to selectively ignore the second part of the message. > As I read that it says he is not happy with those changes being > attributed to him. This is both about being able to selectively and critically (from a technical PoV) analyze diffs, as well as have legally correct attribution. I believe both are important, not just because Debian likes it, but because it's the correct thing to do for whatever happens 10 years from now. Remember JBs pains to get pieces of VideoLan relicensed under LGPL? Let's prevent that, it's easy. I understand that one of the authors (Diego) of these changes on top of Clement's/my decoder now says that he rescinds his authorship over his changes (to who? To me? Clement? Both? Some other entity? Copyright doesn't just vanish into thin air; maybe he wanted to publish it under the WTFPL?), but I'm not sure that has any legal weight (I certainly don't have written, signed paperwork on this), nor am I aware of what other authors would need to rescind their right for me and Clement to have full ownership over this. And then there's the obvious IANAL problem. Blobbing stuff together is wrong. It's a mistake, I'm sure people threw out their git history, so let's just admit there was a mistake and make sure we don't repeat it. Poor Clement spent considerable time going through your changes, splitting cosmetics from functional patches. We even found bugs in your changes as a result of this. It's for the better. Let's get along. Ronald _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
