| I believe the GHC project should consider setting some reasonable | ground-rules for contributions to be on the safe side in order to | avoid potential copyright (or similiar) issues in the future, as well | as giving confidence to commercial users that precautions are taken to | avoid such issues. I agree with that. We could list the policy on https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions, or a page linked from there. One possibility would be to add a "Contributors" section to the GHC Team page https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC, and ask anyone submitting a patch to add an entry describing themselves (including their real name) to that page. By "contributor" I means someone who is submitting a patch but is not yet a committer. We could have separate sub-pages for committers and contributors. That would give a way to celebrate contributors, as well as a way to identify them. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of | Herbert Valerio Riedel | Sent: 30 October 2014 08:13 | To: ghc-devs | Subject: RFC: Properly stated origin of code contributions | | Hi, | | GHC's Git history has (mostly) a good track record of having properly | attributed authorship information in the recent past; Some time ago | I've even augmented the .mailmap file to fix-up some of the pre-Git | meta-data which had mangled author/committer meta-data (try 'git | shortlog -sn' if you're curious) | | However, I just noticed that | | | http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commitdiff/322810e32cb18d7749e255937437 | ff2ef99dca3f | | landed recently, which did change a significant amount of code, but at | the same time the author looks like a pseudonym to me (and apologies | if I'm wrong). | | Other important projects such as Linux or Samba, just to name two | examples, reject contributions w/o a clearly stated origin, and | explicitly reject anonymous/pseudonym contributions (as part of their | "Developer's Certificate of Origin" policy[1] which involves a bit | more than merely stating the real name) | | I believe the GHC project should consider setting some reasonable | ground-rules for contributions to be on the safe side in order to | avoid potential copyright (or similiar) issues in the future, as well | as giving confidence to commercial users that precautions are taken to | avoid such issues. | | Comments? | | Cheers, | hvr | | [1]: See | http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Do | cumentation/SubmittingPatches | _______________________________________________ | ghc-devs mailing list | ghc-devs@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs