Thank you for your advice! I did make some minor modifications to the package, but since I am not the primary author I will take your suggestion and make my friend the Git author and mark myself as the Co-author.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:06 AM Julien Lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> wrote: > > Le 20 avril 2020 09:14:54 GMT-04:00, Steven vanZyl <rushste...@rushsteve1.us> > a écrit : > >Hello! > > > >I would like to submit a package to Guix that someone I know wrote. > >They do not wish to submit it themselves, and have given me explicit > >permission to do so on their behalf. > > > >I was wondering if there were any special considerations to be made? I > >have added both their and my names to the copyright of the file in > >question, and I was going to mark them as Co-author on the Git commit. > >Is there anything else I should do? > > Not sure if we have guidelines, but here's what I think: > > If you didn't take part in creating the patch, do not add yourself to the > copyright or as the author of the git commit. If you participated in the > content of it, and the other is the main author, have them be the author of > the git commit and add yourself as co-author. Add a line for both of you in > that case. If you are the main author and the other person helped you, you > did the right thing. > > Ianal, but I think, if you publish someone else's work, you don't own any > copyright on it. You cannot say you are the author of something you didn't > create, and that's also why you had to ask for permission before sending us > the patch :) -- Thank You, Steven vanZyl
