Re: consolidate btrfs checksumming, repair and bio splitting

Johannes Thumshirn
2022-10-26T07:36:51Z

[+Cc Steven ]

Steven, you're on the TAB, can you help with this issue?
Or bring it up with other TAB members?

Thanks :)

Full quote below for reference:

On 24.10.22 19:11, David Sterba wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 11:25:04AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I've asked for recommendations or best practice similar to the SPDX
> process. Something that TAB can acknowledge and that is perhaps also
> consulted with lawyers. And understood within the linux project,
> not just that some dudes have an argument because it's all clear as mud
> and people are used to do things differently.
>
> The link from linux foundation blog is nice but unless this is codified
> into the process it's just somebody's blog post. Also there's a paragraph
> about "Why not list every copyright holder?" that covers several points
> why I don't want to do that.
>
> But, if TAB says so I will do, perhaps spending hours of unproductive
> time looking up the whole history of contributors and adding year, name,
> company whatever to files.
>