On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 11:22 -0800, Brian Swetland wrote: > > What would be useful would be a reasonable convention for > acknowledging multiple authors, perhaps something along the lines of: > > Author: Awesome Upstreamer <au@xxxxxxxxxxx> or Main Author <main@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Committer: Awesome Upstreamer <au@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: arm: msm8k: acpu clock management > > ... summary of the patch ... > > Original-Author: Joe Firmware Guy <joe@xxxxxxx> > Original-Author: Kernel Droid <droid@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: ... Nah, sod that. If the original authors couldn't be bothered to do their work properly in the first place so that it was upstreamable, then as far as I'm concerned they don't deserve the credit. We should do the bare minimum that's required by copyright law, which is making sure that the code is permitted in the kernel under the GPL. Since the GPL doesn't have, and doesn't *allow*, a clause like the BSD advertising clause, we have no requirement to credit the original authors. If they wanted credit, they should have done the job right in the first place. Or at least finished the job for themselves rather than forcing someone else to clean up their mess. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx Intel Corporation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
