[ros-dev] Re: Copyright notices

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

Quandary wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:17:11PM +0200, Rafal Kupiec
> wrote:
> > K McI wrote:
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > > 
> > > 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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