[m-rev.] review: acknowledge MC contributions in NEWS file

[Julien Fischer]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Paul Bone wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 05:14:15PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote:
>>
>> Estimated hours taken: 0.1
>> Branches: main, 10.04
>>
>> NEWS:
>> 	Acknowledge work done by MC for the java
>> 	and erlang backends.
>>
>
> Should this affect the copyright of the project?  If you want to assign
> copyright to Melbourne Uni it should probably be done formally.

The policy regarding code contributions is here:

      <http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/contributions.html>

(Presumably MC "talk[ed] to us about the issue" when they originally
began committing changes -- I don't know, I haven't been around that
long.)

> Having more than one copyright holder is usually not a problem in practice.

That's debatable, and is in any case something we wish to avoid.

> The only consideration is that a change in the license of the project, for
> example GPL2 to GPL3 needs the consent of all copyright holders.

Changing the license is the motivation for the existing policy.

Cheers,
Julien.
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