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[Mageia-dev] Collaboration policy

+ Olivier Blin + mageia at blino.org +
+ Thu Jun 14 23:25:25 CEST 2012 +

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David Walser <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> writes:
+
+> Olivier Blin <mageia at ...> writes:
+>> Crediting patchs from others by only mentionning the source
+>> (i.e. Mandriva, Fedora, XBMC, ...) is not enough IMHO.
+>> 
+>> If we want to give proper credits, we should also mention the author of
+>> the patch.
+>
+> It doesn't say we don't give credit to the patch author.  It just says in our
+> package changelog (a.k.a. our SVN commit messages), you mention where you got
+> the patch from, because at that level you want to be concise and that's a much
+> more useful piece of information.
+
+It says that we prefer to mention "source" over "author".
+That's not good enough IMHO if we want to be ok with credits.
+The "source" is not the one retaining the copyright on a change, only
+the author owns this.
+And mentionning an author's name is the minimum reward when
+cherry-picking a change.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
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