Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: s/SeongJae/SJ/

[Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 11:45:03AM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 6/29/26 11:37, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 11:25:52AM +0200, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 29 2026, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Just curious, why do you drop the author and copyright information? (can you
> >>> even drop the Amazon copyright note?)
> >>
> >> Off topic, but I am curious how these copyright notices are supposed to
> >> work in the first place. From what I have seen, the person who creates
> >> the file normally adds one for themselves/their employer. But then other
> >> contributors who make small/medium changes don't add theirs, even though
> >> they should hold the copyright for the code they added. Bigger refactors>> sometimes add a notice but that isn't done consistently either.
>
> Yes, I saw it on bigger stuff as well, but not on small stuff, really.
>
> >>
> >> So do these notices even hold any value? They certainly don't list all
> >> the entities who hold the copyright to the code in the file. Only git
> >> log can tell you that. Is there even any point in adding them?
> >
> > It strikes me as a rather loose convention.
> >
> > I am not a lawyer, but I would say that individual and corporate ownership of
> > code are implied by S-o-b, not by comments in files.
>
> Guess it gets interesting once the SOB does not carry that information. Also,
> some people might work at company X (and send code from company mail address)
> but may hold all copyright by themselves.
>
> So even the git log cannot tell that story.
>
> But in any case, I would expect a comment about that in the patch description :)

Right yeah that'd be nice agreed :)

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David

Cheers, Lorenzo