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Re: Proper attribution of patches
- From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
- To: devel at XFree86 dot Org
- Cc: cygx <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:02:20 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Proper attribution of patches
- References: <200312222110.hBMLAPRo087003@public.xfree86.org> <3FE888B0.2020503@msu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
> Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
> found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch.
>
> The CVS log message says:
> fixes for _XtInherit on cygwin.
>
> The hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG files says:
> XFree86 4.3.99.903 (xx December 2003)
> + 699. Fixes to build/run on cygwin (Thomas Dickey).
>
> I know that this patch was based at least in part (if not entirely) on
> Ralf Habacker's patch for the same, since it includes a more than twenty
> line comment from Ralf along with his name at the bottom:
>
> http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/Xt/Initialize.c.diff?r1=3.21&r2=3.22&f=h
I'm aware of that.
Your commit didn't mention this either. Do you have point?
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