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RE: Copyright [cgf, please comment]


> The problem over FAQ ccame from several people
> have contributed to FAQ, beside me, and they are not please seeing you
> come with a draft and your Copyright notice reads like it is claiming
> the entire contents copyright and authroship notice.

Show me an answer that someone else wrote and I'll be more than happy to
site the answer as coming from them.

You should know that I actually take pride in citing the work of others,
why, just look at all the effort I went to in getting a perfect bibliography
entry for Schieffler and Getty's X Window System, just so I could cite two
sentences.

http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#biblio

Now, I'm going to request that you reveal the names of those who are
concerned, as I would be more than happy to work with them to address their
concerns.  If you choose not to reveal the names, then I'll just happily
assume that the "people that contacted you" are yourself and Robert Collins,
as you're the only two that don't seem to be on easy terms with me.  You
can't honestly expect me to believe that someone (other than yourself and
Robert) would contact you in regards my forgetting to attribute an answer to
them, as I have always been more than willing to attribute credit to other
people.

I can think of a couple people that might claim I have gone too far in
doling out credit, as I attributed some diffs to Pierre Humblet that he
later recalled (mine were fine), and I have several times given credit to
Alexander Gottwald when I merely got the idea of using a particular function
call by looking at his code (when implementing an unrelated feature).

I'm really going to have to call your bluff on that one, provided that a
list of those with concerns never materializes.

Harold


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