On 3/28/06, Gary Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:27 PM > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > > Subject: Re: [all] Line width and such minutiae > > > > On 3/28/06, Sandy McArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have searched some and the arguments don't hold water with me. > > > > Main reasons I cba to put my name on stuff I touch or create nowadays: > > > > * Private emails asking questions, offering patches etc. It starts to > add > > up. > > * It's an effort to put @author in. I'm lazy. Lots of names in one > > file does start to feel spammy. > > * It's pretty minor in terms of recognition. > > > > > I'm proud of the code I've contributed and I think an @author tag is > > > proper recognition. I feel strongly enough about this that I'd > rather > > > not contribute to apache at all than loose that recognition. We are > > > not the "Apache Borg". We are a group of individuals that enjoy > > > programming. I am not willing to be assimilated and if the rest of > > > apache has a problem with that then revoke my commit rights. > > > > Until we decide as a community to remove the @author bits, you're > > welcome to keep adding them in. I'm pretty sure we've not made any > > community decisions as that thread would have stretched on for a long > > time. > > Based on the February 18, 2004, Apache Software Foundation Board of > Directors Meeting Minutes, author tags are "discouraged". > > From > http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004 > _02_18.txt > > Although initiated due to the current efforts for Spam Assassin, > the board discussed at length the issues and guidelines regarding > copyright ownership for the ASF. It was agreed that all files > should have 1 single copyright to the ASF. Copyrights extend > to the work as a whole, and the ASF must have these. The > use of the CHANGES files should note any "history" regarding > copyrights and that the use of 'author' tags should be > discouraged for this and other reasons.
Nice one, I didn't realise it had got as far as being that formal. Thanks for the link. I know there's copyright changes in the pipeline legally - I thought it just meant that we'd be getting a different header for each file or something, but maybe it means @author bits. Will have to find out. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
