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From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2004 12:14
To: Dave Page
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] CVS Commit by andreas: disable function owner for pgsql < 8.0 [Tony
Apparently I misunderstood that when I saw this in CHANGELOG.txt (e.g. on 2004-09-16).
Ahh, yes well, Ivan wrote that patch, so was creditted for it. The changelog is a bit arbitrary though - some contributors get their initials in their once they've become regulars, regardless of whether they are committers or not. CVS is the 'one true record'.
I never got the idea of licensing issues on a hint that an attribute was missing, but thought it would be a good idea to reflect the appreciation of user's feedback about pgadmin problems.
Oh, certainly we should note ppl who report stuff. I just want it to be clear that they reported it rather than fixed it. For many years, I've used the [Author's name] convention in our CVS.
so [reporter] only in changelog, not cvs?
I don't object marking bug reporters in CHANGELOG.txt/cvs differently, but this seems not adequate for licensing issues. The nature of pgAdmin is quite clear, so anybody posting something here already does this under the Artistic Licence. For nontrivial extended code fragments contributed by non-devteam members we should add a comment "contributed by ..." in the sources.
Again, that's fine with me. My concern is twofold- 1) what if the licence ever proves unusuable in court, we may then need to try to contact authors of previous code to relicence it, or 2) if there is ever a patent or IP claim against our codebase, we may need to be able to tell who did what.
It's not acceptable that even most trivial patches should lead to the necessity to re-contact the issuer. This could simply paralyze us. In this case, I'd opt to reject any posted patch until the author has expressively granted everything to anybody forever. As soon as a bug is reported, usually its fix is trivial (thus we don't need 3rd party patches) or the posted patch isn't complete and needs rework because it reveals more problems.
The idea of contacting people years later is not feasible either, as I have to realize while trying to contact all our translators.
Certainly, one day in the future usage of the character sequence wxTE_PASSWORD in a file ending with xrc might get patented. But that would be the very moment I'd be burning my computers and start growing sheep and potatoes. Lemon and sugar cane for distilling purposes might be a good idea as well...
Regards, Andreas
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