On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 03:53:17PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > Note that reiserfsprogs-3.6.4-4.diff has in fact not moved the credits > to another file, but *removed them entirely*. The sponsors of the > program are not mentioned at all in the Debian package. This is > unconscionable.
You seem to be equating author credits with sponsorship credits, as if removing sponsorship credits is on a level with, say, removing copyright notices and the author's name. Removing the name of the person who paid for a program to be written is not the same as removing the name of the person who wrote it.[1] (Hans goes further, and claims that Debian is taking credit for the tools, which is, as far as I can tell, a simple lie.) [1] perhaps this is not the case legally--certainly not if he had assigned copyright to a sponsor--but we're speaking of morals, not law -- Glenn Maynard
