Watermark error <?php instead of <?

In the contests.php file located under administrator/components/com_simcontests/views/configuration/tmpl/ the photo thumbnail is missing the php part i.e

<?
if (file_exists(JPATH_SITE.'/components/com_simcontests/watermark_thumb.png')) echo '<strong style="color:green">(Detected)</strong>';
else echo '<strong class="text-error">(Not detected)</strong>';
?>
</small>

It should have the php inserted after the <?

I have updated this already on my site, but I thought it should also be done on the download packages and for future version of the software