Re: Submitting a package on another's behalf

[Steven vanZyl]

Thank you for your advice! I did make some minor modifications to the
package, but since I am not the primary author I will take your
suggestion and make my friend the Git author and mark myself as the
Co-author.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:06 AM Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Le 20 avril 2020 09:14:54 GMT-04:00, Steven vanZyl <address@hidden> a écrit :
> >Hello!
> >
> >I would like to submit a package to Guix that someone I know wrote.
> >They do not wish to submit it themselves, and have given me explicit
> >permission to do so on their behalf.
> >
> >I was wondering if there were any special considerations to be made? I
> >have added both their and my names to the copyright of the file in
> >question, and I was going to mark them as Co-author on the Git commit.
> >Is there anything else I should do?
>
> Not sure if we have guidelines, but here's what I think:
>
> If you didn't take part in creating the patch, do not add yourself to the 
> copyright or as the author of the git commit. If you participated in the 
> content of it, and the other is the main author, have them be the author of 
> the git commit and add yourself as co-author. Add a line for both of you in 
> that case. If you are the main author and the other person helped you, you 
> did the right thing.
>
> Ianal, but I think, if you publish someone else's work, you don't own any 
> copyright on it. You cannot say you are the author of something you didn't 
> create, and that's also why you had to ask for permission before sending us 
> the patch :)



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Thank You,
Steven vanZyl