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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Abusive copyright removal
From:       Jaroslaw S <kexipl () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-03-29 22:40:18
Message-ID: 56a746381003291540u1c33ffb5s1d44a6961b374437 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 29 March 2010 23:57, C. Boemann <cbo@boemann.dk> wrote:
> On Monday 29 March 2010 23:35:58 Thomas Zander wrote:
>> On Monday 29. March 2010 22.21.03 Pierre wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > It is not the first time that I see this occurring, but it appears that
>> > Thomas Zander has removed some copyright notices in the source code.
>> > I send this email publicly because that behaviour is just dangerous. If
>> > it was a mistake, then I would really like to understand how it could
>> > happen. The latest abusive copyright removal was in commit r1108276. A
>> > previous one was noticed by Sebastian Sauer months ago, I'm sorry I had
>> > to purge my archives because they started taking too much space so I
>> > can't provide any commit revision...
>> > So please, Thomas, can you explain why you do this ?
>>
>> Hmm, do you really think this tone is needed or productive?
>>
>> If you think this was removed in error please tell us what copyright you
>>   still own in that file.
>>
> Thomas, the burden on proof is on you. If you want to remove someone from
> copyrights, I expect you to come up with an extensive case study, presented
> here on the mailing list and asking the person in question beforehand.

Well, to be honest, at least the copyright in KWTextDocumentLayout.cpp
was added for really minor changes (r846840) and there are no later
changes:

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/koffice/kword/part/frames/KWTextDocumentLayout.cpp?view=log&pathrev=1108276

I haven't try the other files.

> And
> certainly not hidden away in a big commit where it's not even mentioned in the
> commit message.

that's right..

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