Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [ros-arm-bringup] 44841: NMI Support Patch 1: [HAL]: T

[Eric Kohl]

Ros Arm wrote:
>   The "ownership" and "copyright" of
> this code is not belonging to either you or anyone else but the original source it came
> from.
>  
>  The PROGRAMMERS field indicates who is responsible for a piece of code in this project,
> is it not? In this case, since you have quitted many years ago, it makes sense this code
> is now belong to us.
>  
>  It is Linux concept of "maintainer".
>  
>  Thanks you,
>  [eVb]
>   
Hi Ros Arm,

you are totally wrong here. The PROGRAMMERS field could be called 
AUTHORS or CONTRIBUTORS and lists those who claim copyright or 
authorship to a file. So removing someone from the PROGRAMMERS field is 
a very disrespectul act, is a copyright violation and must be reverted 
as soon as possible.

You can claim sole authorship to a file if you created the initial 
version of a file.

You can also claim authorship to a file if you modified it in a 
significant way. In this case you can ADD your name to the END of the 
list of programmers. So the author who wrote the first version should 
always stay on top of the list. Changing a "+" to "-" or adding
"+ 1" is 
not enough to claim authorship.

And in no case you have the right to change the license of an existing 
file without having prior permission to do so by ALL authors of that 
file. As far as I can remember, I did NOT grant permission to relicense 
my code under the BSD license. My contributions to ReactOS were, are and 
will be published under GPL or LGPL only.

Therefore I ask you to revert the following patch:
[ros-diffs] [ros-arm-bringup] 44860: NMI Support Patch 6: [HAL]: Fix NMI 
recursion issues. [HAL]: Reset the display during NMI and paint the NMI 
Screen of Death.

In case you fail to revert the patch within a week (aka 7 days) I will 
revert this patch myself and restore the previous version.

And by the way, DON'T INTRODUCE YET ANOTHER FUCKIING CODING STYLE!!!! 
Use the coding styles that are already being used!!!!

Oh, and before I'm done: I don't like to talk to meaningless nicks like 
Ros Arm, RosLeg or ROSIDONTKNOWHOWTOFUKINGCALLMYSELF. Reveal your 
identity! I don't see a reason why you have to hide behind you nick. If 
you need to hide your identity you should better leave ReactOS because 
these reasons can only endanger the project. And I will always prefer to 
throw a single contributor out of the team rather than endangering the 
whole project.

And finally, my name is Eric Kohl and I joined the ReactOS project in 
December 1998. So I guess I have the right to voice my opinion here.


Regards
Eric