On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 8:36 AM Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 03:27:55PM +0100, Danil Kipnis wrote: > > Hi Leon, > > > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 11:15 AM Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Perhaps it is normal practice to write half a company as authors, > > > and I'm wrong in the following, but code authorship is determined by > > > multiple tags in the commit messages. > > > > Different developers contributed to the driver over the last several > > years. Currently they are not working any more on this code. What tags > > in the commit message do you think would be appropriate to give those > > people credit for their work? > > Signed-of-by/Co-developed-../e.t.c > > But honestly without looking in your company contract, I'm pretty sure > that those people are not eligible for special authorship rights and > credits beyond already payed by the employer. > Hi, Leon, Thanks for the suggestion, how about only remove the authors for the new entry, only keep the company copyright? > +/* Copyright (c) 2019 1&1 IONOS SE. All rights reserved. > + * Authors: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > + * Danil Kipnis <danil.kipnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > + * Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > + * Lutz Pogrell <lutz.pogrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > + */ The older entries were there, I think it's not polite to remove them. Regards, Jack
