Re: Credits for imported files

>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

   >> From: Uwe Brauer <[email protected]>
   >> Cc: Uwe Brauer <[email protected]>, [email protected]
   >> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:42:19 +0200
   >> 
   >> However in the hebrew.el file itself there is no author mentioned.

   > Then I probably should ask you where did you get the file you
   > modified.  The author _is_ mentioned in the file that is in the GNU
   > Emacs repository, since July 2011.  Since you submitted the file to
   > XEmacs much later, I wonder where did you find the file without that
   > note.

I checked hebrew.el in my GNU emacs24 installation and you are right the
author is there. I don't remember exactly, but I think one problem was
the coding. I was advised to  use iso-2022-7bit, encoding and there was
an  incompatibility between GNU emacs and Xemacs. So I think I ended up
copying code of the GNU emacs hebrew.el into an older hebrew.el file I
had in my Xemacs directory (obviously  without the author in the
header). Whether this version is also from GNU emacs or corresponds to
an older Xemacs version from 21.4 I do not remember, most likely it was
an old GNU emacs version.


   >> May I suggest to add it right there and not bury it in some
   >> ChangeLog files?  That would avoid these sort of misunderstandings.

   > This file does have the attribution inside it.  However, in many other
   > cases, certainly when only a few functions are copied, the credits are
   > only in the ChangeLogs.  My suggestion was to also grep those in order
   > to find the original contributor(s).

Well but then you would not name these authors in the corresponding
files but want use to do so?

   > Thanks.

I submit a changed hebrew file.

Uwe

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