OpenEuphoria

Re: Acknowledgement

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Sep 26, 2002
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francis wrote:

> Having downloaded libraries willy nilly, and learnt a lot from them, I
> cannot STAND the fact that literally EVERY fucking thing has to be 
> "acknowledged". I find this list bordering on the EXTREME of commentory: 

Funny, I find credit given to people in C code all the time.

To point out the obvious: if the code were entirely trivial, there would be 
no need to have taken someone else's work. But since you grabbed someone 
else's work, why not not acknowledge the source? There's no actual cost - it 
doesn't make the code go any slower. It's good form, and good karma.

Heck, if someone wanted to acknowledge his 5th grade math teacher in the 
credits, or Plato for inspiring a love of all things logical, what's the 
problem with that? For most of us, it's the only reward we'll see for putting 
hours of time that would have been better spent with our families and friends 
into this software. We've got no obligation to write this code at all. If 
you're going to begrudge people for giving credit for work, what form of 
reward will be left?

By the way, Pete Eberlein probably should get the credit for coming up with a 
lot of the code for working with structures.

-- David Cuny