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MUSTANG -- Re:Upstream removing manpage attribution. WTF?

Morten,

I was made aware of this thread (see below) thanks to a colleague.
Your juvenile self-indulgence and paranoia amuses me. While it was indeed a genuine oversight that caused your credit -- it was I who included your credit in first place, if I remember correctly -- to be deleted from the manual page, I will now *make it a point* to *remove* your man page from every future distribution of MUSTANG--- and there is a major one coming very soon!
Since you have chosen to make a mountain out of a molehill, are you really squabbling for credit for merely formatting in troff the text which the program *itself* generates? There was not a *single word* of your own in that man page. The entire thing was taken /in toto/ from the paper's abstract, the programs "--help" option and the original README file. In fact, I was really thankful even for this (and included your name in the man page) and would still have, had it not been for your repugnant attitude!. What is /really/ "troublesome" for a scientist is to piggyback on someone else's software and seek credit for some inconsequential trivia; and then shout out from rooftops for a genuine oversight!
You say that you sent me a mail making me aware of this. First, it has been over a year and a half since I left Penn State, and more than four years since I left csse@unimelb. Nevertheless I keep checking these inboxes periodically. It was, then, very surprising that I missed your mail. So I vigorously searched these accounts (including the junk folders; and no mail ever gets deleted). Turns out that I still can't trace your mail??? Can you prove that you really sent a mail to me? The way you conduct yourself (and this is not the first time I have seen you casting aspersions) makes me suspect everything you say!
I care two hoots about the package's future status in Debian-Med. I have more than just deep admiration for the philosophy of free software and have always been a strong advocate of open-source software myself. It would be a shame if Debian is sabotaged by sheer unreason! 

Arun Konagurthu




I am in the akward position that an upstream author has removed the
attribution in the Authors section in a man page that I have contributed.
See the attached diff.

I wrote an email making him aware of this, but have not received any reply.
I think this is especially troublesome for someone aspiring to become a
scientist.

The man page was originally covered by the license in debian/copyright,
which said:

Copyright: of the Debian packaging is assigned to the copyright holder and
 condition to the above license.
License: BSD-like

However, I don't think that gives permission to remove the author's name.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Morten
-- Morten Kjeldgaard, asc. professor, MSc, PhD BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University C. F. Møllers Alle, Building 1110, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Lab +45 8942 3130 * Fax +45 8942 3077 * Home +45 8618 8180 Mobile +45 5186 0147 * http://www.bioxray.au.dk/~mok 
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--- MUSTANG_v.3/mustang	2008-01-15 02:05:19.000000000 +0100
+++ MUSTANG_v3.2/man/mustang.1	2009-04-18 10:44:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -62,9 +62,9 @@
options the user specifies in the command line. DEFAULT output identifier: 'results' 
 .TP
-.BI \-F " <fmt>" -Alignment output format. The choices for \fI<fmt>\fR are: 'html', 'fasta', 
- 'pir', 'msf'.  DEFAULT format: 'html'
+.BI \-F " <format>" +Alignment output format. The choices for \fI<format>\fR are: 'html', 'fasta', 
+\'pir\', 'msf'.  DEFAULT format: 'html'
 .TP
 .BI \-D " [CA\-CA diameter]"
 Produce an HTML file where the the residues are reported in lower case with
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@
 Generate a PDB file containing optimal superposition of all the structures
 based on the alignment.  DEFAULT: 'ON'.
 .TP
+.BI \-r " [<ON>/<OFF>]"
+Print to a file rmsd table of multiple superposition along with rotation matrix
+and translation vector corresponding to each input structure.  DEFAULT: 'OFF'.
+.TP
 .B \-\-help
 display a help message and exits.
 .TP
@@ -83,13 +87,14 @@
.SH AUTHORS \fBMustang\fR was written by A. S. Konagurthu, using the algorithm of -A. S. Konagurthu \fIet al.\fR (see reference) 
-.PP
-This manual page was written by Morten Kjeldgaard <mok@bioxray.dk>.
+A. S. Konagurthu \fIet al.\fR (see REFERENCE)
.SH REFERENCE A. S. Konagurthu, J. Whisstock, P. J. Stuckey, and A. M. Lesk, MUSTANG: A 
 multiple structural alignment algorithm, \fBProteins, 64(3) 559-574 (2006).\fR
+.SH BUG REPORT 
+arun AT csse DOT unimelb DOT edu DOT au
+
 .SH SEE ALSO
-\fBMustang\fR's homepage: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~arun/mustang/
+\fBMustang\fR's homepage: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~arun/mustang/
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