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Nicholas Clark
Date:
February 25, 2022 06:19
Subject:
Re: Why do we still have AUTHORS?
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 10:25:06PM -0600, David Nicol wrote:
> P5p is contractually obligated to retain listings in the authors file or
> equivalent as part of the source code distribution.
> 
> Do away with the authors file and my lawyers will submit a patch backing
> out my contributions and get a court to order you to apply it.
> 
> That's why.

Right. Formal warning. This is a code of conduct violation, even if it is
meant as a joke. (I think that it is. But I don't bloody care.)

"No bombs. No jokes. No kidding."

Roughly.

No more warnings to *anyone* on this subject.

Nicholas Clark
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