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From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 25 Feb 2023 09:20:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] RISC-V: enable rust
To:     Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 11:32 PM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> It was a few hours ago that I looked properly, but, IIRC, it was a
> conversion from config files to code? My understanding was that
> config files were not copyrightable, hence I looked only at the
> authorship of the code. I'm usually on the anal side about SoB stuff,
> so it is not a matter of me not bothering!

It is not so much about copyright, but about crediting people fairly.
Gary has done a significant amount of the work that eventually became
part of the patches here, and I would have sent the patch with at
least a `Co-developed-by` from him.

Not to mention every commit in the kernel has a SoB, regardless of
what files are modified -- I would not remove a SoB from somebody else
when forwarding a patch even if they were all non-copyrightable files.

Cheers,
Miguel