Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:08:56 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses
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Hi Adrian,

I have only now had time to read your patch and reject most of it --- the 
email addresses in the revision histories etc are for historical purposes 
and as such are very useful. They are NOT meant to be valid except at the 
moment of time when they are written. The only purpose of email address in 
the revision history is the indication where the person worked _at the 
time_.

The only bits that should be made sure to remain valid are the 
MODULE_AUTHOR, as Arjan also mentioned.

Also, it is very strange that I have _not_ received your original email 
containing the patch --- I only saw it now via lkml archive.

Kind regards
Tigran

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:08:39AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:00 -0800, Hua Zhong wrote:
>>> I am curious, what's the point?
>>>
>>> These email addresses serve a "historical" purpose: they tell when the contribution was made,  what the author's email addresses
>>> were at that point.
>>
>>
>> .. and which company owns the copyright.
>> ...
>
> Email addresses aren't good for this kind of information.
>
> As an example, what is stusta.de and does it have any rights on my
> contributions? [1]
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
> [1] it can't own the copyright since in Germany the copyright belongs
>    untransferably [2] to the author [3]
> [2] except for heritage
> [3] but he can give exclusive usage rights for known kinds of usage
>
> -- 
>
>       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
>        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
>       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
>                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
>
>
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