Hello, it has been brought to my attention that lately a number of commits have been added to the BareBox repository (and released as BareBox v2010.10.0) that contain literal copies of hundreds of lines of code taken from the U-Boot project. While this is OK in general (U-Boot is covered by the GPLv2/GPLv2+), in this case the code has been added to the BareBox repository without any attribution to the original authors. Instead, the respective commits carry only SoB lines like these: Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Commits that very clearly show this problem are for example: d424ce7 image: factorise image printing contents 0ceafe1 Replace direct header access with the API routines aba80a2 image: rename IH_CPU to IH_ARCH to be more concistant 7bd7d59 image: factorise string helper In the examples given, most of the copied code was actually written by Marian Balakowicz and should be attributed to him. Neither Jean-Christophe nor Sascha have any credits on that code. We all have been working long enough in free and open source software projects that I can assume you are well aware of the basic principles of open source software licensing and the requirement to attribute code to its original authors. Jean-Christophe, may I please ask you to stop copying code from other projects without proper attribution? Sascha, may I please ask you to make sure that proper attribution of all such copied code gets added to the BareBox repository and released code? [Please make sure to keep me on cc: to any replies as I am not subscribed to the BareBox mailing list.] Thanks. Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx By the way, ALL software projects are done by iterative prototyping. Some companies call their prototypes "releases", that's all. _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
