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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Abusive copyright removal
From:       Jaroslaw S <kexipl () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-03-29 23:20:25
Message-ID: 56a746381003291620j664a0587qe2d084fd0342f9ec () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 30 March 2010 00:57, Pierre <pinaraf@pinaraf.info> wrote:
> 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.

Pierre, I am just not sure our "copyright management", whatever it is,
is based on commits. I thought it is based on files.

At least I use the following rule when applying my changes: even while
commit is a logical/self-contained change (it should be), it only
changes copyrights in files which nontrivial and non-automatic changes
(yes, non-trivial cna be one line fix that consumed the whole day and
lunch).

That's BTW. You know that your copyrights are non-removable.

Casper suggests "no copyright removal ever" and it's good idea - with
exception for "I and only I can remove copyright line added by
mistake".

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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 Kexi & KOffice (http://www.kexi-project.org, http://www.koffice.org)
 KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (http://windows.kde.org)
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