[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12366: Remove @author tags

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#12366: Remove @author tags
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 Reporter:  ryan                 |        Owner:        
     Type:  defect (bug)         |       Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal               |    Milestone:  3.0   
Component:  General              |      Version:        
 Severity:  normal               |   Resolution:  fixed 
 Keywords:  dev-reviewed commit  |  
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Comment(by hakre):

 For GPLv2 compability: Attribution does have copyright related issues. GPL
 is on top of the copyright so what has been written here ("Attribution
 requirements are not compatible with GPLv2.") is not that precise and can
 even be misread. The GPL license does in no way allow you to modify the
 copyright statement. That's an authors decision (at least where the
 copyright law I work under applies) and the GPL is far away from working
 against that.

 It's good to read that this has been done by ryan in consent with the
 original authors. To have it properly documented, it would be usefull if
 ryan provides the list of persons for whom he speaks so we can ensure that
 not someone slipped through.

 And by the way, the problem I have with this is to do it in retrospective.
 Even if the commits were done in error, there was absolutely no
 documentation for those issues previous to this ticket. You do not want to
 get your personal things changed later on and then be said: sorry dude,
 too late.

 I did not speak against having some rules of that everybody knows of
 before code gets committed. I do not have a problem to give credits to
 certain parts of the code either, because it can be usefull to figure
 things out afterwards. I do not want to make that more complicated as it
 needs to be, ''personally'' I have no problem what it's done with my code
 otherwise I would have said. But I can only speak for my own code and I'm
 far away from patronising other authors.

 I mean we're all developers here, so I think it's pretty fair to respect
 our rights.

 Anyway, for new commits, a somehow documented guideline should be
 available - a general one, not only bind to the @author tag which infact
 is just a detail (but that codex subsection and this ticket now is a first
 start). Maybe that's something Matt can do for the foundation, the project
 can just benefit from it IMHO.

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