From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) (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 4E47D19B5A3; Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:10:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1740514223; cv=none; b=VV7JHWgNrjnzvkxa0kIUjpw2LpoeDO8vEUoZVuEt+yizf0Jmx0Z5lYZVaY+W66CMkBuUuD+ngSbUNUR3JKiiqiS+CPvXrZO2P7Ge8cI8QALk0YDEvvPOa4P01Le/s6d/26zwiE3UBAjdTS+N0wgBkxXUTxrw5O3y/wt0fy+olnk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1740514223; c=relaxed/simple; bh=9Sikho32R619XOFYLt/q+5TkXxnLWtEEZEAnylAOoGs=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=ewzLvcPsCuWfVu914tC3vS89s7oPdMziEQjy7nJnV3B50JPiyr6Z3qLszkX4Y0vVLhgICJFuWTuVqY9Dx8eg9IPjhJbUvny7TO1ga6ZG9aEgZdHgLmvZTJyVm/tGaSO4OL+B5VZ3TcevwPoT1V4HG+Kw0F8L3srGZW2GKlhHCKU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b=obGn1mYL; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b="obGn1mYL" DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net 2FE5748EC1 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1740514220; bh=slRgZF0YUGBpz++3WDLE3bOeRLCVZObJIeYEzYOIpCc=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=obGn1mYLsYj0Td+2DDjCeU5YLxeiAW2kMrjnQxi7v/Wa4GRvnuTSspJUZnShbImxB Q2SkDVdcrD9X9ivjbPRE6P6QSc952yqQ9o70c4hP1+zQRyCF6cGk7ptjQsBKJY1nX9 /A0pi3oHnK9cJQmdIw+g19qkIHirm/++2WQHG0BJCjip93wmVmvb1uxKORgw7gfaWZ 95Pmz7+UGqG58IBC1Xn5zg+PTTyAdenWFvaQEzds/tf/7IGuzgdJmvrRDKdkMy3i6Y RFXDlXlkgIQV4HPWHS3UqrsYAaJuj1qzsikZcAzM/ODaYRM96mSmuMkoLOGXKi73l/ SDUVGmKvSErRg== Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:280:4600:2d7f::1fe]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2FE5748EC1; Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:10:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Jonathan Corbet To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List , linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/39] scripts/kernel-doc.py: add a Python parser In-Reply-To: <20250225083814.51975742@foz.lan> References: <3905b7386d5f1bfa76639cdf1108a46f0bccbbea.1740387599.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> <87v7sy29rh.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> <20250225083814.51975742@foz.lan> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:10:19 -0700 Message-ID: <87tt8hyedw.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: > Em Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:38:58 -0700 > Jonathan Corbet escreveu: > >> Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: >>=20 >>=20 >> I also think you should give consideration to preserving the other >> copyright notices in the Perl version. A language translation doesn't >> remove existing copyrights...who knows how much creativity went into >> some of those regexes? > > Makes sense, but the copyrights at kernel-doc.pl: > > ## Copyright (c) 1998 Michael Zucchi, All Rights Reserved ## > ## Copyright (C) 2000, 1 Tim Waugh ## > ## Copyright (C) 2001 Simon Huggins ## > ## Copyright (C) 2005-2012 Randy Dunlap ## > ## Copyright (C) 2012 Dan Luedtke ## > ## ## > ## #define enhancements by Armin Kuster ## > ## Copyright (c) 2000 MontaVista Software, Inc. ## > # > # Copyright (C) 2022 Tomasz Warnie=C5=82=C5=82o (POD) > > Also doesn't preserve all copyrights from people that worked hard to > maintain it all over those years. Agreed ... and I'm not sure what we can do about that. But *removing* existing copyright notices is a bit of a different story; that is generally considered to be fairly bad form. I don't have a problem with adding a longer credits area, I guess, if we want to do that (though it's not normal for other source files). But I'm not sure we need to. Thanks, jon