Ros Arm wrote: > The "ownership" and "copyright" of this code is not belonging to either you > or anyone else but the original source it came from. > > The PROGRAMMERS field indicates who is responsible for a piece of code in > this project, is it not? In this case, since you have quitted many years ago, > it makes sense this code is now belong to us. > > It is Linux concept of "maintainer". > > Thanks you, > [eVb] >
Hi Ros Arm, you are totally wrong here. The PROGRAMMERS field could be called AUTHORS or CONTRIBUTORS and lists those who claim copyright or authorship to a file. So removing someone from the PROGRAMMERS field is a very disrespectul act, is a copyright violation and must be reverted as soon as possible. You can claim sole authorship to a file if you created the initial version of a file. You can also claim authorship to a file if you modified it in a significant way. In this case you can ADD your name to the END of the list of programmers. So the author who wrote the first version should always stay on top of the list. Changing a "+" to "-" or adding "+ 1" is not enough to claim authorship. And in no case you have the right to change the license of an existing file without having prior permission to do so by ALL authors of that file. As far as I can remember, I did NOT grant permission to relicense my code under the BSD license. My contributions to ReactOS were, are and will be published under GPL or LGPL only. Therefore I ask you to revert the following patch: [ros-diffs] [ros-arm-bringup] 44860: NMI Support Patch 6: [HAL]: Fix NMI recursion issues. [HAL]: Reset the display during NMI and paint the NMI Screen of Death. In case you fail to revert the patch within a week (aka 7 days) I will revert this patch myself and restore the previous version. And by the way, DON'T INTRODUCE YET ANOTHER FUCKIING CODING STYLE!!!! Use the coding styles that are already being used!!!! Oh, and before I'm done: I don't like to talk to meaningless nicks like Ros Arm, RosLeg or ROSIDONTKNOWHOWTOFUKINGCALLMYSELF. Reveal your identity! I don't see a reason why you have to hide behind you nick. If you need to hide your identity you should better leave ReactOS because these reasons can only endanger the project. And I will always prefer to throw a single contributor out of the team rather than endangering the whole project. And finally, my name is Eric Kohl and I joined the ReactOS project in December 1998. So I guess I have the right to voice my opinion here. Regards Eric _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
