Give credit where it is due
Jeff's recent post I cannot repeat enough, with both MbUnit and Gallio we have made sure that we have credited folks where we have reimplemented their ideas and concepts. If they took the time to come up with the concept\idea then we feel it was only right to credit them for that concep\idea, while there may be little legal standing it is a polite and professional thing to do. During my time as V2 lead, Roy contacted me about a failure on our part to credit him for the Rollback attribute in the MbUnit code and we quickly corrected it. It was Roys concept and it was only fair to give notice of that. Me and Jeff have recently noticed several other OSS projects who have copied some of the concepts\ideas from MbUnit\Gallio and we ask that those concerned give us the same consideration.