Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261437AbVEVTDx (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 15:03:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261275AbVEVTDx (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 15:03:53 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:59662 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261437AbVEVTDt (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 15:03:49 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 20:03:44 +0100 From: Russell King To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: When we detect that a 16550 was in fact part of a NatSemi SuperIO chip Message-ID: <20050522200344.B9854@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200505220008.j4M08uE9025378@hera.kernel.org> <1116763033.19183.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1116785646.6285.24.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050522194438.A9854@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1116787877.6285.26.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1116787877.6285.26.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>; from arjan@infradead.org on Sun, May 22, 2005 at 08:51:17PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2395 Lines: 54 On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 08:51:17PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 19:44 +0100, Russell King wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 08:14:06PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 09:59 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, 22 May 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Linus, please do not apply patches from me which have my personal > > > > > information mangled or removed. > > > > > > > > I've asked Russell not to do it, but the fact is, he's worried about legal > > > > issues, and while I've also tried to resolve those (by having the OSDL > > > > lawyer try to contact some lawyers in the UK), that hasn't been clarified > > > > yet. > > > > > > there is a potential nasty interaction with the UK moral rights thing > > > where an author can demand that his authorship claim remains intact... > > > so if David objects to his authorship being mangled (and partially > > > removed) he may have a strong legal position to do so. > > > > Actually, that only depends on whether you decide that Signed-off-by: > > reflects authorship. > > > author David Woodhouse Sat, 21 May 2005 15:52:23 +0100 > > that looks far more like an authorship statement and is also munged. In which case we have a problem: http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=12f49643bc44c428919b210148a930496827dd26 Therefore, I put forward that this thing which appears to be called "author" does not reflect authorship, but who submitted it. Alternatively, if you are right, we must not wrongfully claim people "author" code in this way, and the above log entry needs fixing. Since that's not possible, we must refuse patches from people who aren't themselves the authors of the submitted code. But how do we positively know that in every case? That's another very interesting problem you've just brought up with public project systems. And of course now that it's been identified it needs addressing. 8( -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/