From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: fix alphabetic ordered list for git-rebase man page Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:57:43 +0200 Message-ID: <4F7059B7.8080406@op5.se> References: <4F6C5F1B.6010603@seap.minhap.es> <7vd383t8vp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Nelson Benitez Leon , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 26 13:58:07 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SC8Yp-0002Wx-4z for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:58:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932441Ab2CZL5m (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:57:42 -0400 Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:37211 "EHLO mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932429Ab2CZL5l (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:57:41 -0400 Received: by lahj13 with SMTP id j13so3824678lah.19 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:57:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=iTx8KIjvzoKinq4hf88eOfXWtReHj39Fmn0zkJO9Mes=; b=YY7QtobGQBubiMx+zjhE0GniJ/+Q1HZc6d4TlKdiCYtB0Q1ypH03Z+yLEj35Ek/HbT F9m78euVSM5f4YO5RPZeRpswC1e7Jt38wU0pomDuNZI0GeRT3ewsJ9PPEsCqfuKnMMqL 8AyfstrkIOHQjUXRT9sjWKohpxXdsifEiuNhTHqwTXD685oCjTO8DVqUldcmqP6XURGf kKDM5lefNS3lgkET4XTsl8p9ZW35ztKP7OUYjkuWiMh9HO7snLvLTepweel31OjfRtRN dtcOlsbAhNGD3T+S/ap2ubDo4anGHiwGoyW3Fp0qH1q/9w8dUdiVzmNVnYptdkM5crTf IO5g== Received: by 10.152.162.72 with SMTP id xy8mr16177049lab.32.1332763059893; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:57:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vix.int.op5.se (sth-vpn1.op5.com. [193.201.96.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ml19sm16982058lab.1.2012.03.26.04.57.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:57:37 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Fedora/3.1.16-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.16 ThunderGit/0.1a In-Reply-To: <7vd383t8vp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkQDQF1CAdKhbhXiXQ2VMZza4b84tUQvO6S+lJeSWMoRcTVnf+p9LNfNDPS4YPu4Pt1lZxL Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 03/23/2012 08:28 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Thanks; sign-off? Having just checked up on this myself for a project I maintain and was sent a patch without signoff (we shamelessly stole git.git's meaning of signoffs), I have it on a copyright lawyer's word that you can safely forge the sign-off for anything that provides a bugfix without adding a new way of doing things, since only changes that carry a certain amount of originality can be copyright protected. Fixing an alphabetic ordering is too trivial to grant the author of the fix any right to the resulting work, as are typo-, grammar and one-line syntactical fixes (adding missing braces, etc), and therefore they do not need to sign off on the fact that they have a right to give others the right to use that work, since they in fact do not have the right to restrict others from using it in the first place. Just thought I'd throw that out there in case you, like I did, run into useful patches you dare not use because the original author gets hard to contact all of a sudden. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.