[ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [jimtabor] 37345: - Add path support for ExtTextOut.

[Aleksey Bragin]

This is already done, most files which have Wine code are labeled so  
atop of the file ("Some parts are taken from Wine project..."). What  
I see is that Dmitry Timoshkov says this is not enough.


On Nov 19, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Dmitry Gorbachev wrote:

> gedmurphy wrote:
>> Let's say you implement a function in our win32k, based on Wine  
>> code. How
>> exactly would you realistically discover which Wine dev wrote that
>> function, and if the function was merely _based_ on wine code,  
>> which parts
>> of the function would you attribute credit to, and how would you  
>> do it?
>
> I think if the dev is not known, then all authors should be  
> credited. I.e.:
> "Parts of this file are Copyright (C) ... ". Or: to gather the  
> original Wine
> copiright notices into a separate file and put a pointer to it in  
> any file
> which is based on Wine.