Hi, On 03/22/2014 08:31 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Hans de Goede, > > In message <532da872.5000...@redhat.com> you wrote: >> >> No as said before the parts for which we don't have a Signed-off-by >> for falls under b), since we took it from existing code which has clear >> GPLv2+ license headers on each and every file. > > Can the code be properly attributed, i. e. does it have proper > Signed-off-by: lines? > >>> using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.) >> >> Right but these are not Signed-off-by lines. Just as I may thank a tester >> in a commit message with just his name because he does not want me to >> disclose >> his email address, we are attributing people here with just there names. > > If these people attributed to the code, we should have their commits > with their respective Signed-off-by: lines.
No, just no. How hard is it to read ? section b) clearly states: "The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications ..." Nothing more nothing less, you're reading a whole lot stuff in between the lines which is not there. Esp. notice the "to the best of my knowledge". I don't remember the exact details, as I was not really active in the sunci community at the time, but after some discussion we got the u-boot code from Allwinner themselves, under the GPL, with GPL headers in place. See ie the first commit in the sunxi repo: https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi/commit/a38e8203867075a3cabc2d690855366852f87635 Which even has Tom Cubie <tangli...@allwinnertech.com> set as author, but does not have his Signed-off-by, but does has "Henrik Nordstrom <hen...@henriknordstrom.net>" Signed-off-by, which is 100% ok under section b). Regards, Hans p.s. This will be my last mail in the thread wrt the whole Signed-off-by discussion, your needless strict reading of the s-o-b guidelines is causing way too much negative energy for me. I hope you and Ian can work out a solution for this. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
