From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:38:17 +1000 Message-ID: <1295750297.2980.47.camel@macbook.infradead.org> References: <20110121094827.41818a55@jbarnes-desktop> <20110121095658.1ab623fe@jbarnes-desktop> <1295632828.19880.22.camel@m0nster> <20110121100441.06a94482@jbarnes-desktop> <1295633882.19880.31.camel@m0nster> <1295642995.19880.42.camel@m0nster> <1295643762.25868.31.camel@Joe-Laptop> <1295645098.22882.1.camel@m0nster> <20110122122018.GC5194@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:36620 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751252Ab1AWCih (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:38:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org To: Brian Swetland Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Pekka Enberg , Daniel Walker , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesse Barnes , Dima Zavin , Joe Perches , davidb@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 11:22 -0800, Brian Swetland wrote: > > What would be useful would be a reasonable convention for > acknowledging multiple authors, perhaps something along the lines of: > > Author: Awesome Upstreamer or Main Author > Committer: Awesome Upstreamer > Subject: arm: msm8k: acpu clock management > > ... summary of the patch ... > > Original-Author: Joe Firmware Guy > Original-Author: Kernel Droid > Signed-off-by: ... Nah, sod that. If the original authors couldn't be bothered to do their work properly in the first place so that it was upstreamable, then as far as I'm concerned they don't deserve the credit. We should do the bare minimum that's required by copyright law, which is making sure that the code is permitted in the kernel under the GPL. Since the GPL doesn't have, and doesn't *allow*, a clause like the BSD advertising clause, we have no requirement to credit the original authors. If they wanted credit, they should have done the job right in the first place. Or at least finished the job for themselves rather than forcing someone else to clean up their mess. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:38:17 +1000 Subject: [PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support In-Reply-To: References: <20110121094827.41818a55@jbarnes-desktop> <20110121095658.1ab623fe@jbarnes-desktop> <1295632828.19880.22.camel@m0nster> <20110121100441.06a94482@jbarnes-desktop> <1295633882.19880.31.camel@m0nster> <1295642995.19880.42.camel@m0nster> <1295643762.25868.31.camel@Joe-Laptop> <1295645098.22882.1.camel@m0nster> <20110122122018.GC5194@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <1295750297.2980.47.camel@macbook.infradead.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 11:22 -0800, Brian Swetland wrote: > > What would be useful would be a reasonable convention for > acknowledging multiple authors, perhaps something along the lines of: > > Author: Awesome Upstreamer or Main Author > Committer: Awesome Upstreamer > Subject: arm: msm8k: acpu clock management > > ... summary of the patch ... > > Original-Author: Joe Firmware Guy > Original-Author: Kernel Droid > Signed-off-by: ... Nah, sod that. If the original authors couldn't be bothered to do their work properly in the first place so that it was upstreamable, then as far as I'm concerned they don't deserve the credit. We should do the bare minimum that's required by copyright law, which is making sure that the code is permitted in the kernel under the GPL. Since the GPL doesn't have, and doesn't *allow*, a clause like the BSD advertising clause, we have no requirement to credit the original authors. If they wanted credit, they should have done the job right in the first place. Or at least finished the job for themselves rather than forcing someone else to clean up their mess. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse at intel.com Intel Corporation