Re: Please remove NFMake from GNA

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 10 Oct 2011, at 14:47, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:

>> The source was written by me and has never been assigned, yet it sites on 
>> the FSF subversion servers marked as being the property of the FSF.  I have 
>> not assigned copyright to the source to the FSF, yet many of the source 
>> files have been changed to say that they are copyright FSF.  
> 
> Just for my curiosity - how did a copy come to the FSF server?
> Di someone steal your code and upload it? Violating a licence
> on the original server?
> 
> There is also a svn log that you can take to find out who did change
> the copyright in your files. I think it is not anonymously done. Then,
> ask the person who did it why he/she did it.

Interesting thought ... I just checked on the svn server  at 
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/tools/nfmake/trunk/ApplicationStyle.h?view=markup&pathrev=6233

This says the initial revision (11 years ago)  was by someone called 'karl' and 
already said the copyright was assigned to the FSF.
Perhaps Karl gave someone access to his account to commit it for him, and they 
added the copyright due to some misunderstanding?  Or perhaps Karl committed it 
himself and forgot?  I certainly can't remember what *I* did in detail after 11 
years, so I expect that's quite possible too.

The change to GPL3 was by Greg a few years ago ... as code in the repository 
generally was changed from version 2 to 3 a few years ago after discussion on 
the mailing lists.  This seems a perfectly reasonable administrative operation 
on his part, given that the code was identified as copyright FSF and part of 
the GNUstep project (and he'd even consulted the mailing list).