Re: Credits for imported files

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Uwe Brauer <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:58:40 +0200
> 
>    >> 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?

My suggestion is to copy the "FOO: New file" or "FOO (BAR): New
function" ChangeLog entries from GNU Emacs together with their
original authors' names into XEmacs ChangeLog.  But that is just a
suggestion; you guys should decide on your procedures yourselves.

> I submit a changed hebrew file.

Thanks.
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