Bzr development stopped

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> David Muir writes:
>
>  > Just to point it out, Mercurial has the equivalent: hg commit --user
>
> OK, so I'm wrong on that point for all the popular DVCSes now.
>
> It's also true that for current practice, most code is contributed by
> merging branches, where the contributor is the committer in her local
> branch.
>
> Nevertheless, the point stands that (in the U.S. at least), the
> copyright owner has the legal right to obfuscate the link between an
> author and the particular lines of code they contributed to, while
> under the contributor agreement the copyright notice will be
> preserved.
>
> Steve

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/property/library/moralprimer.html is
interesting and related to this - obfuscating the link between author
and work isn't actually under the control of the owner of the work, if
the work has moral rights. I suspect copyright law has a long way to
go to catch up with open source culture on this.

-Rob

-Rob