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

[From: David Weinehall]

On ons, 2006-11-22 at 11:42 +0200, ext David Weinehall wrote:
> 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.

Follow-up: this issue should be fixed now; you might have to reload the
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Regards: David