Re: providing a libidn compatibility API

[Tim Ruehsen]

On Monday, February 20, 2017 9:32:59 AM CET Tim Ruehsen wrote:
> On Sunday, February 19, 2017 10:17:02 AM CET Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> writes:
> > > On Samstag, 28. Januar 2017 09:37:53 CET Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> > >> On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 13:24 +0100, Tim Ruehsen wrote:
> > >> > On Thursday, January 26, 2017 2:07:39 PM CET Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
> > >> > 
> > >> > wrote:
> > >> > > Note that there few small changes from the version you submitted in
> > >> > > gnutls (one which detects non-ascii chars, and another which allows
> > >> > > XN-- as prefix).
> > >> > 
> > >> > Hi Nikos, hi list,
> > >> > 
> > >> > I am done with coding here (branch 'decode' on jas or rockdaboot) and
> > >> > now
> > >> > start reviewing/adding your changes. I'll post my comments /
> > >> > questions step by
> > >> > step.
> > >> 
> > >> Which repository is considered to be the primary? Note that I noticed
> > >> that the tip of the master in both repos has commits from an unnamed
> > >> author:
> > >> Author: userwithuid <address@hidden>
> > > 
> > > 'jas' is the official repo of Simon. He gave me write access, so I can
> > > keep this and my private repo 'rockdaboot' in sync. Releases are done by
> > > Simon - and I guess he will review / test all my commits before ;-)
> > > 
> > > userwithuid made two PRs to repo 'jas' - I reviewed, tested and merged
> > > them.
> > 
> > Can we get a name of him or her?  Please track contributions in the
> > AUTHORS file.
> 
> I just send her/him an email and asked for the real name.
> 
> But anyways, I see both patches as 'trivial', so there should be no
> licensing issue in the future.
> And I stopped asking people for the 'real' names for other projects. It
> might have a good reason, why they want to be anonymous. And such people
> could give as any 'real' name. It is, well, just any name. We could as well
> include 'address@hidden' into the AUTHORS file.

Here is the answer:

"Sorry for the late reply.

As to the question: No need for author mention for those trivial patches
imho. If you really have to, just put my username and consider it a public
domain contribution or whatever else suits you. :-)

(This is a testing/etc/whatever accountname, I'd rather not link it with my
real name.)"

Tim

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