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Apache policy snippet

November 18th, 2007 by Hen

Apparently we should be doing this:

“the policy is that any commit of stuff created by someone else must be marked as such, either by ‘Submitted by: ‘or ‘Obtained from: ‘ being part of the log. ”

ie) if applying a patch from an issue tracker, or if applying code that someone else wrote and passed on to you in another way (IM, personal mail, mailing list, git repository).

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2 Responses to “Apache policy snippet”

  1. Shane Curcuru Says:
    November 18th, 2007 at 7:06 pm

    Apparently? What apparently?

    Yes, it’s a good idea. I’m just wondering where the specific policy actually came from, and how we expect it to be enforced. As I asked a day or so ago. 8-)

  2. Hen Says:
    November 18th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    I suspect when we setup CVS many eons ago. It was in the CVS commit message template (though useless if you don’t use an editor for your comment). Moving to SVN, we never realized that we’d lost the template.