On 10/2/24 3:39 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
On Wed, 2024-10-02 at 13:33 -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
Since we typically do not maintain changelogs as text files in the
kernel, and since the arcmsr changelog has not been updated since
2008, remove it.
This is legally problematic. Under the terms of the GPL, the
copyrights and change log are required to be kept intact (section 1
since they're notices). We sometimes fudge around this if there's an
equivalent in the source control system (so the git history substitutes
for the requirement to add change notices and can sometimes be used to
remove change notices if they can also be seen in git). There isn't an
equivalent in this case since the change log pre-dates the driver
addition.
Hi James,
Thanks for the feedback. I will drop the patches that remove change
logs.
Bart.
