I agree @author tags should be removed and replaced with a mention (or maybe even a new section) in CREDIT file
Zppix Volunteer developer for WMF enwp.org/User:Zppix On Jun 13, 2017 3:02 PM, "Stas Malyshev" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > > MY understanding is that removing the @author @copyright tags in > > MediaWiki code represent ownership of the original code placed under the > > GPL. Subsequent modifications being derivative products. > > But there's no way to verify that the code is indeed an original > creation of whoever is listed under @author, and not a derivative work > of something else. > > > I am not a lawyer, but by dropping the copyright information, I highly > > suspect that will be a breach of the license. > > AFAIK GPL itself does not protect attribution. It allows (optionally) to > add clauses protecting attribution, but does not require it. > > I wonder though, given that Git has all the change history including > authorship, what is the need to duplicate that information in the source > code (and risk the two getting out of sync)? > > And if we are not considering Git logs to be part of the distribution, > we're already violating this GPL clause: > > You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating > that you changed the files and the date of any change. > > Since you can commit the change (thus causing original work to be > modified) without such notice, except for Git metadata. We obviously > consider Git metadata to be enough in this case, why not in any others? > > -- > Stas Malyshev > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
