Re: Oct and Nov 2012
NightStrike <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Earnie Boyd <[email protected]> wrote: >> 3) When a developer has gone to the trouble of identifying him/herself, >> even in code donated to the public domain, you should *not* remove >> it; in doing so, you are infringing the moral rights of those >> developers to be identified as the authors of that code, which, if >> I recall from our own previous discussions, is one of the objections, >> (possibly even the principal objection), to the concept of public >> domain in those jurisdictions which decline to recognise it. With >> our migration to a more formal statement of copyright, surely it >> becomes even more important that this moral right be protected? >> > > I'll agree that I may have overstepped the bounds on this a bit in > order to be consistent. However, the rights of Public Domain source > give me the right to do so (not that I should have). If you identify > that which is troublesome to you I can adjust it. However the file > preamble should look the same across the board and any additional > comments go below it and not embedded in it. He's right. Though it is certainly allowed to take someone's work that is public domain and copyright it as your own, it is far from admirable and downright immoral. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct