Re: consolidate btrfs checksumming, repair and bio splitting

Chris Mason
2022-10-24T16:41:22Z

On 10/24/22 10:44 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 08:12:29AM +0000, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>> David, what's your plan to progress with this series?
>
> FYI, I object to merging any of my code into btrfs without a proper
> copyright notice, and I also need to find some time to remove my
> previous significant changes given that the btrfs maintainer
> refuses to take the proper and legally required copyright notice.
>
> So don't waste any of your time on this.

Christoph's request is well within the norms for the kernel, given that
he's making substantial changes to these files. I talked this over with
GregKH, who pointed me at:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects

Even if we'd taken up some of the other policies suggested by this doc,
I'd still defer to preferences of developers who have made significant
changes.

-chris