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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/ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:23:14 -0700 Message-ID: <20260629132314.159577-1-sj@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: damon@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:59:25 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > 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 :) Thank you for all the comments. I intentionally removed those notes, becuase a better information could be found from the git history (I was using amazon corporate email when I initially sent the patch) and seems the notes will only be outdated and may confuse people. I'm not familiar with the law, though. But again, thanks to git, I think I could revert necessary parts if anyone claims. And I agree this intentions is better to be clearly explained. I will send v2 with the explanation. Thanks, SJ [...]