On Dec 8, 2007 10:34 AM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Recall: we are not the borg. We all have names. What is the real > > objective here? I'd like to help develop the best math software in the > > world, and get credit for it. In the kind of job market many of us > > face, this is what differentiates different people vying for the same > > job. Ownership and credit are very different things. Tell me this- why > > are we so worried about owning something that is free, that anyone can > > change and distribute, and whose goal is to be available to everyone? > > Hi, > > I don't think Ondrej's suggestion was to remove attribution it was more to > change the technique how to write it down, wasn't it? My initial consent was > based on the impression that the current attribution scheme doesn't always > give credit because people forget to add themselves.
Yep, exactly this. It's not about forgeting. When making a small change, people don't add them deliberately, because they feel they didn't do enough (which they didn't imho). But if a file was originaly written by one or two authors, but then completely refactored by 15 different authors, so that later the file doesn't really resemble the original one, do the original authors deserve to be on top of the file? I think it's a fair question to ask. There is no doubt credit needs to be given. Also noone will remove authors field from files without permission of the author, at least I would consider this to be very impolite. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
