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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:32:36 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Multiple patch authors
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On 10/25/2012 06:59 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:56:54PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> No, SOBs are to document patch forwarding. Co-authorship can be
>> expressed a number of ways, such as:
>>
>> Based-on-patch-from: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
>>
>> and/or by adding you as a copyright holder to one of the files.
>
> Ok, let's hold this down in writing for future reference and in case I
> forget (which will happen, most probably :-)).
>

I have also used:

Originally-by:

... for a patch originally written by one person but then extensively 
reworked to the point of not really being the same work.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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