java-nio-charset-enhanced -- Milestone 4 is released

Ulf Zibis Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de
Tue Apr 7 07:30:00 UTC 2009


Am 07.04.2009 05:45, Mark Reinhold schrieb:
>
> You seem to think that the Contributed-by line exists in order to keep
> Sun's lawyers happy.  It doesn't.  Sun's lawyers actually know nothing
> about it.
>
> We defined the  line in order to give credit to non-author
> contributors in a visible and permanent way.  We could equally well have
> called it the "Thank-you" line, but we didn't.
>
> As a changeset author you're free to list anyone whom you think worthy of
> credit in the Contributed-by line.  Is the problem here that you assumed
> otherwise?  If so then we just need to improve the documentation.
>
>   

Mark, Martin, I'm happy, that there is some discussion about this 
subject. :-)

I never have seen such a "Contributed-by" line. Do you think about 
something like? :

/**
 * ...
 * @author Mark Reinold
 * @contributor Ulf Zibis
 */


-Ulf





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