On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 7:09 PM Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> wrote:
> On 21.02.19 17:05, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 2/21/19 9:53 AM, David Kiarie wrote: > >> the occurrence of my name and email on the files below may have led to > >> some confusion in the reporting of a few recent bugs. > >> > >> i have therefore choosen to snip it. > > > > Dropping an email from the copyright line makes sense; dropping the > > Copyright declaration altogether is a bit odd (the GPL works only in > > tandem with a copyright assertion) - but as you are the author of the > > line and copyright holder of your contributions, I am not in a position > > to say you are wrong in removing it, only that it looks odd. > > > > Yeah, indeed. > > David, also note that you probably have been addressed because > scripts/get_maintainer.pl will look into the git history of files that > some > patch addresses and pick up significant and/or recent contributors from > there. > There should be some opt-out statement from that, but I don't recall how. > > Jan, Eblake, i respect your opinion but i still think my original patch would have been best fit for the simple me. > Jan > > -- > Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA IOT SES-DE > Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux >