Quandary wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:17:11PM +0200, Rafal Kupiec wrote:
K McI wrote:
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Rafal Kupiec wrote:
I think, now we're not violating the GPL. for eg:
http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/hostilix/trunk/Sources/apps/notep
ad/dialog.
c?op=diff&rev=0&sc=1
I hope Revision 42 isn't the latest because the URI is invalid (You lost a "w" somewhere from 1 to 42)! (...)
What?
The site. The site that the above link points to. Look at it.
- Copyright(C) 1999-2005r. BetaComp Team http://www.betacomp.info/
becomes
- This file is a part of BetaComp Team Project http://ww.betacomp.info/
Notice the missing W in "ww.betacomp.info".
I still don't understand why they have to put their mark on the code at all.
Is it some kind of ego boost the hostilix team is a after? Is it because they want people to think they have the skill the ROS devs have? Is it because they want people to think they wrote the code?
IMO, if you use code from another project, you leave the code as it is, i.e. no claiming copyright, no adding headers to claim ownership, or to trick people into thinking it's your code, or any other type of header just for the sake of adding it.
The only time you should be adding your own mark is when you have altered the code in some way. Your mark should then be added, in addition to the current list of programmers.
To be honest, I find it all rather sad and quite pathetic to need to stoop to this level. Just take the damn headers off and all this hostility will end.
Ged.
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