From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12267 invoked by alias); 23 Dec 2003 20:52:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12260 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2003 20:52:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys19.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.119) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Dec 2003 20:52:57 -0000 Received: from office.ixn.com ([68.23.74.57] helo=msu.edu) by sys19.mail.msu.edu with asmtp (Exim 4.24 #37) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1AYtWT-0006JS-BS; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:52:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3FE8AB20.3010801@msu.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:19:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: devel@XFree86.Org Subject: Re: Proper attribution of patches References: <200312222110.hBMLAPRo087003@public.xfree86.org> <3FE888B0.2020503@msu.edu> <3FE894EE.2090103@msu.edu> <3FE89A68.6060805@msu.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00345.txt.bz2 List-Id: Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > >>No, that is not good enough. You should amend your change log entry to >>attribute the patch to Ralf and you should apologize to the X community >>at large for being so sloppy with attributing credit. > > > yes, you're right. Thanks. > now I'll have to scrutinize your commits more closely > to see who actually did the work. Hold on. Lets assume that I had made the change. So, we are assuming, hypothetically, that the patch should have been attributed to me. In that case you are still in the wrong because you attributed the patch to yourself, not to me (even though I did not make the change). You cannot escape the fact that *you* *took* credit for the patch; you did not assign it to the wrong person due to a mistake in interpreting the change log entries, you actually *took* credit for yourself and didn't mention the fact that you got the patch from another project. Harold