[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Requesting assistance concerning proper author credit at nseries.com/770experience_2/

[From: David Weinehall]

On tis, 2006-11-21 at 14:19 -0800, ext Aaron Levinson wrote:
> I'm hoping that someone at Nokia can be of assistance in giving proper
> author credit for VNC viewer at the Nokia 770 campaign Web site at
> nseries.com/770experience_2/ .  A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail from
> Ari Jaaksi, requesting permission to publish VNC viewer on the new
> campaign Web site.  In the e-mail, it was indicated that proper credit
> would be given to the developer.  At the time I received the e-mail, I was
> on vacation and didn't see the e-mail until a little over a week later, at
> which point I responded both to Ari and campaign at nokia.com.  I didn't hear
> back and sent another e-mail this week--so far, no response.
> 
> Currently, VNC viewer shows up on the campaign Web site, but credit is
> given to Derek Coleman, who took the most recent version of the software
> that I released for IT2005 and ported it to IT2006 (the diff indicates
> that the changes were minimal).  There were no other changes, but for
> whatever reason, Derek indicated that he was the sole author on the maemo
> IT2006 software list wiki page.  Since then, Detlef Schmicker has made
> some changes to the source code, and I'm finally getting back to
> development, after taking a break in order to get married.
> 
> I would appreciate it if someone from Nokia could rectify this situation.  
> I spent many hours working on the original IT2005 version, and Detlef has
> also spent a good deal of time fixing outstanding bugs, making performance
> enhancements, adding some new features, and responding to users.

I'll raise the issue with Ari.


Regards: David Weinehall