From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wolverine02.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.251]:34424 "EHLO wolverine02.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752017Ab0C2SUw (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:20:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] generic arm for MSM try2 From: Daniel Walker In-Reply-To: <20100329181717.GA15163@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <1269560155.21793.89.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100328214901.GA8614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1269881777.17124.5.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100329172841.GD28468@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1269884644.17124.19.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100329181717.GA15163@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:20:34 -0700 Message-ID: <1269886834.17124.24.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Pavel Machek Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Catalin Marinas , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 20:17 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > > > > > > > Well, I don't think it's fair on those who created abort-ev7.S to go > > > > > throwing a boilerplate copyright on the file which makes it look like > > > > > "Code Aurora Forum." wrote the entire thing. > > > > > > > > You want the license and copyright removed? I can remove them, although > > > > I rather not have too. > > > > > > The fact of the matter is that "Code Aurora Forum" did not create this > > > file, and their copyright does not cover the code which is already there. > > > > Before we discuss it lets just be clear that I've already offered to > > remove the copyright, and license changes.. I've not said that I > > wouldn't do that , in fact I'll make a new pull request now minus those. > > > > > By putting such a boilerplate at the start of the file without some > > > acknowledgement of its past history, they are effectively saying that > > > their copyright extends to everything in the file. That's certainly > > > not the case; take a moment to consider how you'd feel if someone threw > > > their copyright boilerplate on a file you'd written. > > > > There is git history on it. Anyone that looks at the git history would > > know right off we didn't write the whole file. There's nothing stopping > > other copyright holders from adding their copyright on top of ours. > Maybe sane solution is to write "portions copyright"? people will not > dig into git history when there's just one author listed. I tried that in the generic kernel once, and Andrew told me to remove those parts because we had git history for that.. So I don't know, maybe we need to require boiler plate copyrights on all files, and fix ones that don't already have them. Daniel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dwalker@codeaurora.org (Daniel Walker) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:20:34 -0700 Subject: [GIT PULL] generic arm for MSM try2 In-Reply-To: <20100329181717.GA15163@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <1269560155.21793.89.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100328214901.GA8614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1269881777.17124.5.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100329172841.GD28468@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1269884644.17124.19.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100329181717.GA15163@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Message-ID: <1269886834.17124.24.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 20:17 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > > > > > > > Well, I don't think it's fair on those who created abort-ev7.S to go > > > > > throwing a boilerplate copyright on the file which makes it look like > > > > > "Code Aurora Forum." wrote the entire thing. > > > > > > > > You want the license and copyright removed? I can remove them, although > > > > I rather not have too. > > > > > > The fact of the matter is that "Code Aurora Forum" did not create this > > > file, and their copyright does not cover the code which is already there. > > > > Before we discuss it lets just be clear that I've already offered to > > remove the copyright, and license changes.. I've not said that I > > wouldn't do that , in fact I'll make a new pull request now minus those. > > > > > By putting such a boilerplate at the start of the file without some > > > acknowledgement of its past history, they are effectively saying that > > > their copyright extends to everything in the file. That's certainly > > > not the case; take a moment to consider how you'd feel if someone threw > > > their copyright boilerplate on a file you'd written. > > > > There is git history on it. Anyone that looks at the git history would > > know right off we didn't write the whole file. There's nothing stopping > > other copyright holders from adding their copyright on top of ours. > Maybe sane solution is to write "portions copyright"? people will not > dig into git history when there's just one author listed. I tried that in the generic kernel once, and Andrew told me to remove those parts because we had git history for that.. So I don't know, maybe we need to require boiler plate copyrights on all files, and fix ones that don't already have them. Daniel