Sebastien Lelong wrote:
So far you've been the first to react like this, so we don't have much background about this. Originally, Author field was here to give credits, grants, and eternal fame. You'd like to add the possibility to give "veto" changes, potentially freezing your contribution even in defavor of others.
It seems to me as a largely disinterested observer (albeit with a legal background) that William's point is about copyright and therefore the licence.
Copyright grants an author certain rights. The licence allows an author to grant some or all of these rights to non-authors, as is obvious in the zlib licence.
It is certainly not legal to attribute authorship to someone who is not the author without assigning the copyright and the assignee accepting the assignment. In this context, if person X creates a file, then person X is the author of that file, not person Y unless you assign copyright to person Y and person Y accepts that assignment.
Additionally, you cannot ignore the licence and what it actually grants you. In the case of the zlib licence, any changes to the source which are not accepted by the author are really derivative works and must not be represented as being the original software or authored by the original author.
The confusion seems to have arisen by wanting "to do the right thing" - that is, acknowledging the original author's work without which the derivative work would not have come into being. The only problem is that has not been done in accordance with the licence or in consultation with the author.
Have I clarified the issue? I hope so. There really is no argument, just a simple misunderstanding.
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