question on referring to deceased contributors

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 21 de desembre de 2023, a les 19:54:54 (CET), Jack Ostroff va 
escriure:
> Good afternoon all,

Good afternoon.

> While updating the KMyMoney handbook, there are several sections
> written by a contributor who is deceased.  


That is sad news :(

> While I still want to give
> him credit for the work, I'm wondering what to do with his email
> address, which is obviously no longer valid.  Should I just replace the
> address with "Deceased"?  Is there any policy or history of what to do
> here?

I'm not sure this list is the best to answer this, adding in copy the KDE eV 
board in case they know about any such policy.

Now i'm going into total guessing territory and just my opinion territory: 
 * If the email was added as a way to add contact or give "visibility", just 
remove it
 * If the email was added as some way to do copyright claim, as far as I 
understand the copyright passed to after his death, so that person should be 
listed, or contacted and convinced to sign the KDE FLA on behalf of the 
deceased person? https://ev.kde.org/rules/fla/

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> This also brought up a different question for me - in KMyMoney's
> index.docbook there are a number of entities for authors with a comment
> that they have been added to contributor.entities in svn.  I just
> looked at contributor.entities in git, and I do not see all of these.
> Might I be looking in the wrong place, or did the conversion from svn
> to git (how long ago?) possibly not include all defined author
> entities?  At worst, I suppose I can just add them now, and continue to
> leave them in index until our minimum version required by KMyMoney is
> sufficient to include  them.
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts.
> 
> Jack