>     Please do not merge Intel's and Linaro repositories and send patches
> for what comes of it.
> If the Linaro maintainers want to do an upstream merge or if
> contributors of Linaro want to upstream
> patches they have authored then great.
> Submitting patches based on other peoples work is not agreeable to me. I
> will not take patches that
> I even suspect isn't from the original authors, and or without the
> authors consent. Do not just merge code bases
> and generate patches based on the diff, and send it to the list. They
> will not be taken.
> 


specifically, I really really insist on keeping the correct authorship
information ("Author" git tag etc) for all the code going into PowerTOP.
Credit where credit is due, but also for tracking the origin and
copyright holders of the code.