Spelling of contributor names

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Sat Aug 24 05:58:00 GMT 2019


* Paul Eggert:

> Joseph Myers wrote:
>> (While we want to move away from Contributed by lines and put those
>> credits in contrib.texi instead, removal isn't an option when the name
>> appears in a copyright notice rather than a Contributed by line, which
>> applies in at least one case.)
>
> Yes, thanks for mentioning these glitches. I installed the attached
> to fix them.
>
> I'm afraid we're stuck with the ASCIIfied spellings in the old
> copyright notice in sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/sys/user.h, as
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-03/msg00293.html> says
> the file must be ASCII, and the file's copyright notice requires
> that we keep the contributors' names. This is merely an annoyance of
> course, and I assume any future contributors in this situation won't
> mind ASCIIfying their names either.

Please restore the Contributed By lines as well.  We should not
discriminate against authors based on the preferred spelling of their
names.



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