From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: move error injection tags into their own file
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:53:52 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171101005351.GL5858@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171101001623.GE4911@magnolia>
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 05:16:23PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 10:22:33AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:31:28PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> > >
> > > Move the error injection tag names into a libxfs header so that we can
> > > share it between kernel and userspace.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> >
> > Simple enough, but there's an admin problem with this patch.
> >
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000..0cc1c05
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_errortag.h
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
> > > +/*
> > > + * Copyright (C) 2017 Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
> > > + *
> > > + * Author: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> >
> > This isn't actually true. You're moving a bunch of code from
> > fs/xfs/xfs_error.h that is under:
> >
> > * Copyright (c) 2000-2002,2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
> > * All Rights Reserved.
> >
> > Moving code into a new file does not reassign the copyright on the
> > code to a new owner. Hence I think this is the appropriate way to
> > record the copyrights on this new file:
> >
> > * Copyright (c) 2000-2002,2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
> > * Copyright (C) 2017 Oracle.
> > * All Rights Reserved.
> >
> > And there's no real need for author tags as we've got that
> > information in the git repo....
>
> Works for me. I wasn't really sure whose copyright really applied to
> changes like this -- the one in the source file? The person who creates
> the new file? Every last person who ever touched it? etc.
It's not clear cut, and IANAL. My basic "try not to get into
trouble" rule is that when copying a significant chunk of code from
a file with a copyright notice is to preserve that notice with the
new copy of the code...
> They don't teach this stuff in maintainer school. :/
Nope, that they don't.
I'm careful about this stuff mainly because of the fact that the
Linux XFS code has a different history to almost all the other Linux
code. And that other code with a similar lineage (i.e. has a
SGI/Irix heritage) came under the spotlight in the SCO vs IBM
copyright war....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-01 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-31 19:31 [PATCH] xfs: move error injection tags into their own file Darrick J. Wong
2017-10-31 23:22 ` Dave Chinner
2017-11-01 0:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-11-01 0:53 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2017-11-01 0:18 ` [PATCH v2] " Darrick J. Wong
2017-11-01 0:54 ` Dave Chinner
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