From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27478 invoked by alias); 23 Dec 2003 21:20:06 -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 27470 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2003 21:20:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.his.com) (216.194.225.79) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Dec 2003 21:20:05 -0000 Received: from mail.his.com (root@mail.his.com [216.194.225.77]) by smtp.his.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hBNLK5I6088553; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:20:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dickey@his.com) Received: from localhost (dickey@localhost) by mail.his.com (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id hBNLK5l03661; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:20:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:45:00 -0000 From: Thomas Dickey To: devel@XFree86.Org cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Proper attribution of patches In-Reply-To: <3FE8A9E8.9090007@msu.edu> Message-ID: References: <200312222110.hBMLAPRo087003@public.xfree86.org> <3FE888B0.2020503@msu.edu> <3FE894EE.2090103@msu.edu> <1072210853.814.33.camel@leguin> <3FE8A9E8.9090007@msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00350.txt.bz2 List-Id: On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote: > > > > > >>The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the > >>ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author. > > > > > > well that's polite enough. > > unlike Harold. > > I have not been rude in this discussion. rofl: get someone (intelligent & patient) to read your first posting and explain it to you. I don't have the bandwidth. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net