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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Abusive copyright removal
From:       Pierre <pinaraf () pinaraf ! info>
Date:       2010-03-29 22:57:27
Message-ID: 201003300057.37431.pinaraf () pinaraf ! info
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On Tuesday 30 March 2010 00:40:18 Jaroslaw S wrote:
> 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.
Yes, indeed, the copyright addition comes from many other changes that I did in 
a branch, but didn't push or moved to other files.
Still, you can consider that the code is still "polluted" by that commit since, 
for instance, it just moved some lines.
The problem is more about the generic idea of modifying copyrights than about 
this removal. It is not the first time we notice Thomas doing such removals, and 
I do not want to watch every single commit, every single change, and look for 
copyright changes.
And if you want perfect copyrights, the best, and probably only way, would be to 
rewrite everything from scratch. Because everybody here already forgot at least 
once to add a copyright line, to update it...

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