stevenhoneyman/l3afpad

have a copyright file mentioning all the original authors

shirishag75 opened this issue · 2 comments

shirishag75 commented

If I understand correctly, and please correct me if I'm wrong -

l3afpad is nothing but a re-implementation of leafpad with gtk3+ functionality.

If that's the case, then it would make sense to names of all the authors before l3afpad as well.

See https://salsa.debian.org/webext-team/tree-style-tab/blob/master/debian/copyright as an example of inspiration

I will attach leafpad's latest copyright with you so you could also use that and add your names to it.
leafpad-copyright.txt and preserve it in authors.txt

You can always say that was leafpad and contributions you made to l3afpad with copyright files . Would make it easier if and when packaging happens.

wdlkmpx commented

This is the original AUTHORS file, it's basically empty
https://github.com/tarot231/leafpad/blob/master/AUTHORS

hoijui commented

I read that it is common with GNU (leafpad is a GNU project) to not list authors. I think the idea is to prevent people committing just to up their count, or say, to fight for most commits (even if unconscious).