From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5DC83B71DC; Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782727175; cv=none; b=CBX9PenMyGqS7TSP9mG/tWVYE+AOXL+NrdQNyb9WJSLPOcGW3yJCpEvsm9FdCi/zHlUQHOzTDpNR8JKxFg2f9HMZr6YJHzfy9ZJbYuc97/4zeul/WDMtYMIqdKaPqrKesUCJQ+ewxr4ZfoZgKuuAQZ/Ax5NYlBK5g+OluD5rSW8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782727175; c=relaxed/simple; bh=xMapsRFdm1PFSt4n5Kx4fRcXn2nJ3ZS+Q6JyTjzdMu0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=KIBCK8ElEdRDMicQVsGijBnLssHnNK/mUDuAjXCsM0t876SC0vj7wlyq3H3yPKn6fk2bOgZQlp6+PkVK7ckJV/nlxkHjuX3r1Skn05RBZh26Bd66JwyjsqKEqkxHupx2zOKhO43HkiPBZaxR/DA1jP5erGGohrB+LQZqSpIXEvw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=lRMhkfmu; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="lRMhkfmu" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 83D1F1F000E9; Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:59:31 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1782727174; bh=xMapsRFdm1PFSt4n5Kx4fRcXn2nJ3ZS+Q6JyTjzdMu0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=lRMhkfmugXROtoJKY71+zIary7pV5lG50fYBXPzQGviugLtdYhw3yg+eQyVnF3C5A anfGNxHpT5nsMdb9JKuwkixzHvdWTdxdWfhG/+PwPzeXg26RVHaMz8D1xz7D2YE9D9 sqvsrHAqAAoondkDcXQTRVF80fo8nMFvUuzUPTDABK7YVH3+/oPQDEiW4DTusTR293 LPMbOdVRzKTN8dI05sVpilcE1kMRGhLuj7e94dFe8qSuukkIaX+JQiF9ycO5bTrjec GfdJU1Lqtm2MXXSKjiXumpFFjs2mXyc628+h3kZLx8QWwoG6WkNcWfogvP/7dfpoT9 YwjOmJBYAiY+g== Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:59:25 +0100 From: Lorenzo Stoakes To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Cc: Pratyush Yadav , SJ Park , Andrew Morton , "Liam R. Howlett" , Michal Hocko , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Vlastimil Babka , damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: s/SeongJae/SJ/ Message-ID: References: <20260627195630.24519-1-sj@kernel.org> <2vxzo6gtk89r.fsf@kernel.org> <4b12ba64-5e2f-492b-80dd-b9be95604026@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: damon@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4b12ba64-5e2f-492b-80dd-b9be95604026@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