Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: s/SeongJae/SJ/

[Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 11:25:52AM +0200, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29 2026, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>
> > On 6/27/26 21:56, SJ Park wrote:
> >> My legal name and preferred first names are SeongJae and SJ,
> >> respectively.  I was using the legal name for commits and tags, while
> >> using the preferred name for conversations.  It sometimes confuses
> >> people including myself.  Consistently use the preferred name.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >>  #include <linux/pid.h>
> >> diff --git a/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h b/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
> >> index 1cfb8c176b873..fcf7c7fadb5fe 100644
> >> --- a/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
> >> +++ b/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
> >> @@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
> >>  /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> >>  /*
> >>   * Data Access Monitor Unit Tests
> >> - *
> >> - * Copyright 2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
> >> - *
> >> - * Author: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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.

Certainly there's not been consistency on this!

>
> [...]
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pratyush Yadav

Thanks, Lorenzo