Changes to "Contribution Checklist" -- Format of the contribution.

[Florian Weimer]

* Carlos O'Donell:

> I wondered this also and I spoke with DJ about this with regards to
> US law. The best we could figure is that there has to be some country
> where copyright assignment and authorship are two distinct items.
> You can assign copyright, but authorship remains yours, and cannot
> be removed. Removing a name might be seen as the equivalent of removing
> authorship. I don't know if this is true, the ChangeLog and VCS all
> contain authorship information for the file anyway, so I think we might
> be able to remove "Contributed by" statements to avoid confusion.
>
> IANAL. I think we might need legal advice here.

Agreed.

If you want to read up on this, key phrases are “moral rights” and
“droit d'auteur”.

Thanks,
Florian