Zhangjin Wu (wuzhangjin@xxxxxxxxx) is the original author, I hope he can give a signed-off. I can only give an ack. Huacai On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 2017-12-31 Sun 12:17 +0100，Philippe Ombredanne wrote： >>> Did you CC the original authors? You would need their signoff or at >>> least an ack IMHO >> >> Yeah, I CC Huacai Chen in v1 as the Lemote staff who in charge of >> Loongson's mainline kernel. Can he sign-off for all the original >> authors who were from ICT and Lemote? >> As far as I know, some authors are no longer working in Lemote. And I >> can't see their new email addresses so it may hard to get their ack or >> sign-off. >> Thanks for your adivce. >> >> -- >> Best Regards >> Jiaxun Yang > > It would best if you can get all acks, at least one authoritative from > each org involved or from each individual involved if not part of an > org. I reckon it may be difficult. But then you can document with your > patch set who you contacted, who you got ack from and who you did not. > > Then again you are not changing anything about the licensing: just > replacing licensing by value (e.g. a full notice) by a license by > reference (e.g. an SPDX tag that references the full text). > > -- > Cordially > Philippe Ombredanne >
