[aur-general] Moving packages to Community

Kaiting Chen kaitocracy at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 13:08:27 EST 2011


2011/2/9 Peter Lewis <plewis at aur.archlinux.org>

> Two very good points. In that case we should be very clear that if a
> package
> is moved up the repo ranking or otherwise adopted, that all contributors'
> names remain on there as a matter of policy (is it already?) I don't
> believe
> anyone has a right to remove a contributor's name unless they also remove
> the
> code they contributed. Given that it's unlikely that they know exactly what
> this is, the only case for this is a total rewrite.
>

Well this really all depends on the license. But out of courtesy I don't
think it is appropriate to remove the names of contributors. --Kaiting.

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