To give some extra context on this patch that I sent earlier today: I work for Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) as our Policy Fellow. OpenWrt is, as many of you know, a member project of SFC.
Some of the leaders of OpenWrt asked me and my colleagues to review this situation regarding the file `scripts/kernel_bump.sh`. As you can see in my commit message: > [T]he commit message on 7b7f1702 incorrectly indicates that there was > "potential fear" about copyright infringement. > Upon review of this situation, there is, in my opinion, no concern of > copyright infringement here. This is not legal advice; it is my opinion > based of years of work on copyright policy for FOSS. > However, Elliott Mitchell's idea was obviously helpful as inspiration in > writing this script and deserves credit. Ideas alone, however, are not to > our knowledge copyrightable anywhere in the world. IOW, our conclusion is that the situation is fully resolved, but we nevertheless recommend that a thank-you to Elliott for the idea (in the file itself) is appropriate. Thanks for your consideration of my patch to resolve this matter. I would welcome `Signed-Off-By`s from others who were involved with work related to `scripts/kernel_bump.sh` if you're willing. Thanks! -- Bradley M. Kuhn - he/them - Policy Fellow & Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
