Hi Campbell,
Sure, proper crediting of our contributors is always cool!
Let's do this as you propose for now, and investigate other methods
later.
-Ton-
Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.org
Committed
https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender/intern/tools/credits_svn_gen.py
Does basic commit stats as well as finding patches and attributing the
patch authors.
And added a link to the credits page from the splash.
http://www.blender.org/development/credits
Remaining
- Original Message -
From: Alex Fraser adfr...@vpac.org
For now it might be easiest to add all the 2.5x credits pages to the
page mentioned above. But as suggested by Campbell, we could move to a
more scalable format that shows each developer and the number of
commits they have
Hi Alex,
Dalai's reply is excellent, hope you can follow this for now.
For Blender we really should resolve this topic now indeed; there's a
strong (legal) lobby in the OS world to make projects use developer
agreements, whith good clarity about copryright origins of
contributions and an
Hi Ton,
- Original Message -
From: Ton Roosendaal t...@blender.org
Dalai's reply is excellent, hope you can follow this for now.
For Blender we really should resolve this topic now indeed; there's a
strong (legal) lobby in the OS world to make projects use developer
agreements,
Hi all,
When doing some work for a client recently, I developed a patch for Blender.
The client is happy to contribute the code back to Blender, however they are
concerned about attribution.
Currently it seems there are no clear guidelines about how attribution is given
for contributions. My
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Alex Fraser adfr...@vpac.org wrote:
Hi all,
When doing some work for a client recently, I developed a patch for Blender.
The client is happy to contribute the code back to Blender, however they are
concerned about attribution.
Currently attribution is in a
Also in the release note documentation will usually mention who coded
the feature of interest.
Note that the release log is linked from the splash screen.
(Hmm looks like I said download page previously the contributor
credits are linked to from the release log, not the download page).
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:52:32PM +1000, Alex Fraser wrote:
I propose that:
1. All future contributions be attributed in modified source files as
Copyright year author or organistion, or at the contributor's option,
in another form that conveys the same information.
2. The same
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:52:32PM +1000, Alex Fraser wrote:
I propose that:
1. All future contributions be attributed in modified source files as
Copyright year author or organistion, or at the contributor's
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:39:25AM +, Campbell Barton wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Stephen Swaney wrote:
Personally, I am not sure of the value of asserting copyright over code
that is GPL'ed.
In practice probably not much though it does mean if we want to add
some GPL
- Original Message -
From: Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net
I do not remember the exact circumstances, but we had a situation
before where some corporation wanted an attribution notice put in the
UI before they would contribute code. The answer was no.
Do you remember what the
- Original Message -
From: Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:39:25AM +, Campbell Barton wrote:
In practice probably not much though it does mean if we want to add
some GPL exception like we did for the BGE or one day move to GPLv3,
copyright
:cry: I don't see my name between patch makers ;-( :cry:
On 21 June 2011 05:11, Tom M letter...@gmail.com wrote:
Currently attribution is in a link on the download page for each version
http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-257/contributor-credits/
And in the files that are
Hi Alex,
last time I remember this been brought up was for Blender 2.49.
In the occasion we had some sponsored contributions and a solution was:
1) to add a name + link in the contributors page:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Template:Release_Notes/2.49/Contributors
2) to add credit+thank
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