Re: Credits for imported files

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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.

> 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).

Thanks.
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