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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Thursday, 14 February, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Meredith L. Patterson</div><div><<a href="mailto:clonearmy@gmail.com">clonearmy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div> would prefer to see it dealt</div><div>with right here where you brought it up by failing to properly credit</div><div>Nadim's work.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>When Nadim posted, I responded off-list because I believe this drama</div><div>has no place for otr-dev.</div><div><br></div><div>I responded to him with my email records showing that the document</div><div>existing in April 2013— long prior to the history reflected on the</div><div>wikipage (which appears to indicate that Nadim is the sole author of</div><div>the text), and the commentary from my email records indicated that at</div><div>the time I believed Jake to be a joint author of the document. The</div><div>MP-OTR spec (being discussed, not the document you linked to) provides</div><div>no attribution to anyone except Nadim, although I was certain that</div><div>this wasn't the case.</div><div><br></div><div>In response Nadim confirmed my understanding. Apparently the true</div><div>history of the document was lost when it was moved from git into the</div><div>cryptocat wiki at some point, similarly to how Jake's fork doesn't</div><div>include the history from the current cryptocat wiki (which includes a</div><div>relatively modest amount of changes on the original document). Nadim</div><div>further went on to claim "[Jake's] contributions to this document were</div><div>done with him being part of the Cryptocat team at the WSJ hack-a-thon</div><div>and thus this document belongs to the Cryptocat Project.". This</div><div>theory of ownership may explain Nadim's failure to acknoweldge Jake's</div><div>authorship— but it is not a sound theory, legally or ethically as I'm</div><div>sure you would agree.</div><div><br></div><div>My own view is:</div><div>* This is foolish drama which has no place on this list</div><div>* The reputation attacks are unjustified and unfortunate.</div><div>* This is foolish drama which has no place on this list</div><div>* By failing to at all acknowledge Jake's joint authorship of the</div><div>document in his public accusation of plagiarism Nadim misrepresented</div><div>the situation.</div><div>* This is foolish drama which has no place on this list</div><div>* Now that everyone is convinced everyone else is acting in bad faith</div><div>the simple polite off-list resolution of this drama which should have</div><div>been used is now not working.</div><div>* This is foolish drama which has no place on this list</div><div>* This is all over a rather insignificant incomplete protocol</div><div>specification for a protocol that was really designed by none of the</div><div>people involved in this discussion. Who is the author of those couple</div><div>hundred lines of prose is not very important... what is important is</div><div>that someone get around to finishing it and implementing it.</div><div>* This is foolish drama which has no place on this list</div><div><br></div><div>In spite of this being foolish drama which has no place on this list,</div><div>I now feel ethically obligated to comment in order to speak out in</div><div>defense of Jake and to point out the factual inaccuracies which appear</div><div>to have inspired your comments. As a penance for my contribution to</div><div>this mess by responding in public I will be donating to one of the tor</div><div>server hosting projects.</div><div><br></div><div>I beg everyone to just add a bunch of attributions to all the copies</div><div>of the document (which would be easier if the original history weren't</div><div>apparently lost) and move on with life.</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>OTR-dev mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:OTR-dev@lists.cypherpunks.ca">OTR-dev@lists.cypherpunks.ca</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev">http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev</a></div></div></div></span>
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