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September 12th 2022, 10:47 AM
ghostknight
I've just added these changes to the same branch.
This is not OK. I have made several improvements/bugfixes to appr. a dozen files and added a copyright notice to the headers of the affected files in order to indicate that I am the author of those changes. The new maintainer removed every trace of that!
What's worse, he even took credit for an entirely new script in contrib/log-format.sh which I wrote from scratch! He deleted me and added his name instead as author.
Here is what he put in his repository. It is a verbatim copy of my script except for the copyright notice.
After hearing that freedink has a new maintainer but no work has been done on it, my initial thought was that the new maintainer just wanted to add freedink to his CV as reference. The recent actions seem to confirm that.
Some of those changes I added *might* seem "unspectacular", but it still took some good time to investigate those bugs/improvements. I spent a few afternoons working on that.
I was going to do some further work on improving/fixing freedink but not under these circumstances. While I only do this in my spare time for fun, I have always believed that credit should be given where credit is due. What really bugs me, though, is that someone else takes credit for my work.
This is not OK!
This is not OK. I have made several improvements/bugfixes to appr. a dozen files and added a copyright notice to the headers of the affected files in order to indicate that I am the author of those changes. The new maintainer removed every trace of that!
What's worse, he even took credit for an entirely new script in contrib/log-format.sh which I wrote from scratch! He deleted me and added his name instead as author.
Here is what he put in his repository. It is a verbatim copy of my script except for the copyright notice.
After hearing that freedink has a new maintainer but no work has been done on it, my initial thought was that the new maintainer just wanted to add freedink to his CV as reference. The recent actions seem to confirm that.
Some of those changes I added *might* seem "unspectacular", but it still took some good time to investigate those bugs/improvements. I spent a few afternoons working on that.
I was going to do some further work on improving/fixing freedink but not under these circumstances. While I only do this in my spare time for fun, I have always believed that credit should be given where credit is due. What really bugs me, though, is that someone else takes credit for my work.
This is not OK!
