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[Axiom-developer] authorship


From: daly
Subject: [Axiom-developer] authorship
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:57:04 -0600

Well, I've been reasonably clear about what I believe the Axiom
policy should be and my opinion of what is a reasonable course.

Since I do all merges by hand, when I got to the line that does
the \author merge I would jointly list the authorship of all of
the prior people with all of the new people, quite independent
of the fact that my name is involved.

You chose to "modify" the file rather than replace the file
so in the main line merge I'd have over-ridden your choice
of \author line and changed it to read (in alphabetical order):

\author{Timothy Daly and Waldek Hebisch}

If you, or anyone feels, that they should have sole authorship
the simple solution is to create a new source filename and then 
modify the build script to drop the old file and use the new one.
The build script could compile "newasq.pamphlet" into the bin/asq
function and all would still work. When merging the new file the
issue would not arise and the new file would retain sole authorship.

I have no feelings either way about asq. Indeed, I hadn't noticed
anything until it was mentioned. I do my best not to "own" programs or
keep emotional attachments to them, both of which tend to cause friction
in the open source model.

Tim




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