On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 03:04:06 +0300 Aleksey Kuleshov <rndfax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Was it so necessary? > > > > Yes. > >> Does Barebox really need this? > > > > Yes. > > Oh, these are exhaustive answers, thank you :) > > >> Or it's just blindly following the rules made by Linux project? > > > > It's irrelevant if BB follows this practice blindly, or with extensive > > knowledge and understanding of all factors involved if the procedure > > involved is believed to be legally sound > > > >> Do really small projects need to follow all such bureaucratic way rather than > >> just growing up? > > > > Yes, project with identical licensing, regardless of their size, need > > to adhere to certain legal procedures in order to have a good case if > > they are ever in court. > > So this means that every GPL'ed hello-world.c project should follow > Linux's rules "to have a good case if they are ever in court"? > > And If think in this way then Barebox should create a Barebox Foundation, > hire a lawyer and wait until someone will sue them. But this is ridiculous, because > Barebox don't need this! That's why there is no Barebox Foundation with lawyer. > > >> What if git history magically disappears? Only authors written in files will be fixed, > >> but all authors of patches will disappear as well. So this SOB field is only > >> valid while "git log" gives you something to read. > > > > I don't understand the point you are trying to make. > > SOB is just a matter of "git log". > > >> But that's for Linux - companies, billions of dollars... What about Barebox? > > Same license, same rules. > > (see about GPL'ed hello-world.c) > > > Aleksey, I am not really interested in continuing this discussion or > > trying to convince you to add SOB to your patch, so if any of the > > above explanations are insufficient for you, I am afraid we are going > > to have to agree to disagree on this subject. > > I asked a simple question - still no use case of SOB in Barebox. Of course there is a use case for SOB in Barebox! Git has the 'Author' placeholder only for one person. If more that one person works on a patch then we can't put all their names into the 'Author' field. However we can use SOB to indicated co-authoring. -- Best regards, Antony Pavlov _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
