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Authored by wayneborean on Sept 26, 2013 23:29:15 GMT
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squib
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Authored by squib on Sept 27, 2013 16:08:29 GMT
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Authored by wayneborean on Sept 27, 2013 17:11:48 GMT
Shows same image. The site I linked to appears to have gone down for now. Wayne madhatter.ca
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Authored by penguinhead on Sept 27, 2013 22:13:35 GMT
I'm one of the unnamed developers!
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squib
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Authored by squib on Sept 28, 2013 13:51:48 GMT
Penguinhead said: “I'm one of the unnamed developers!” That's reawaken something that's been on the back of my mind for some years. When a movie comes to an end there are several minutes of credits which name s everyone that had a creative import (although just how the stable boy that dealt with what came out of the rear end of 'National Velvet” had a creative contribution I do not know but I trust you get my drift). If I download and application (say Hugin hugin.sourceforge.net/) (which I think is brilliant) I always look up who was involved in developing it. With these applications and many others though, they are also built upon countless other coders that created the foundations that Hugin's is built upon –<b> but they don't get a mention.</b> Now, as we know, the copyright of a GNU is owned/shared (over simplification) by everyone that contributed. So... Is it not possible that an app (maybe something compatible with Git) can produce and maintain (by volunteers) a set of boiler-plate credit line that can follow FOSS apps around. The practical obstacles I can see, is that contributors of code are more interested in contributing code than seeing their names lit up in lights. Yet Linux is growing and can accommodated all sorts of supportive import now. There must be hundreds of people who are pedantic historians and would love to take the forensic approach and list 'Who Did What and When' into boiler-plates. The 'Who Writes Linux 2013' image then could then have just include a link to the appropriate boilerplate (which would also credit Penguinhead and all those, that don't as yet, warrant their own Wikipedia articel but nevertheless make Linux what it is today). Declaration of conflict of interest: I own many copyrights that have been released under commons licences which have been used outside the licence conditions. It would cost me more to take legal action than it would cost the perpetrators. P*** off about it.
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Authored by wayneborean on Sept 28, 2013 14:35:56 GMT
Sounds like a damned good idea to me Squib. Disclosure: I also own a hell of a lot of copyrights. In addition to writing non-fiction on Tech and Politics, I write and sell a lot of Horror stories. Oh, yeah. And I actually did work as a programmer about 20 years ago... Wayne madhatter.ca
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