Re: [Fresco-devel] Contributor credit?

Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:49:25 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.fresco.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:29:54AM -0000, Jez Higgins wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just found out, thanks to the miracle of Google, that I'm listed 
> (under a old, but still live email) as a contributor to Fresco on the 
> GNU Free Software directory listing at 
> http://www.gnu.org/directory/GUI/fresco.html
> 
> This was rather a surprise, given that I've never worked on Fresco or 
> Berlin.  The only other reason I could think of was that some of my 
> code, presumably my SAX in C++ stuff, was used in Fresco.  I've had a 
> search through your CVS repository and through the mail archive and 
> can't find any mention of it, or me.  Perhaps it was being used, but 
> isn't now.

Hmm, yes, that's it indeed -- I still have source code to your SAX
stuff in sitting in my working directory, but our fearless leader
seems to have removed it from the repository at some point.  We never
used it for anything, but it was planned, or something like that.

> So, is anyone able to confirm if you're using my code, because if not 
> I'll ask the Free Software directory people to take my name off.  

It seems that at the moment, we're not using your code at all.

(I wonder where that directory gets its information in the first
place?)

-- Nathaniel

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