[Xorg-commit] CVS Update: xc (branch: XORG-CURRENT)

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Kaleb Keithley wrote:

>Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:49:58 -0800
>From: Kaleb Keithley <xorg-commit@pdx.freedesktop.org>
>To: xorg-commit@pdx.freedesktop.org
>List-Id: Track commits to xorg source code <xorg-commit.freedesktop.org>
>Subject: [Xorg-commit] CVS Update: xc (branch: XORG-CURRENT)
>
>CVSROOT:	/cvs/xorg
>Module name:	xc
>Changes by:	kaleb@pdx.	04/03/03 13:49:58
>
>Log message:
>  bug #265
>  sync with fd.o xlibs version of the fix XFree86 made to their XlibInt.c,
>  3.37 (4.3.99.5)

Just an observation..  Whenever we are bringing fixes into the 
tree, I think the proper thing to do is to credit the actual 
author of each fix explicitly in order to give appropriate 
credit.  Only if the author of a fix is not easily obtainable 
should vaguer forms of creditation be used.

I'm not sure who the author of the above commit was, but I just 
wanted to make note of this because creditation issues seem to be 
at least part of the reason for the recent XFree86 license 
change, and I feel it is very important that everyone be given 
proper credit for their contributions wherever that is easily 
doable.


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat