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Howlett" , Michal Hocko , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Vlastimil Babka , damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: s/SeongJae/SJ/ Message-ID: References: <20260627195630.24519-1-sj@kernel.org> <2vxzo6gtk89r.fsf@kernel.org> <4b12ba64-5e2f-492b-80dd-b9be95604026@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4b12ba64-5e2f-492b-80dd-b9be95604026@kernel.org> X-Stat-Signature: y6ctdj3sq4pzk3t1ea9wzb59mh8ip7a8 X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 5CD9740007 X-Rspamd-Server: rspam02 X-HE-Tag: 1782727175-227106 X-HE-Meta: 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 AWiLcRmo zyzGXYC6ggz6I+qtIiUsQdkxt0yPlq27zkovaF0YJGnHxVvRJjeVw0awjW8l23poJxs7raWp8f5Ni6TO9sSpLxwr0AEGFtsxzgfX+/8nR5/X61Y+ZTSn2tG9GMOyAnVWFB7FEQFEk3hq2lAUvdM6AjoTmhcg5czEYAXs3icGUFufMuiaBs9RKa3JcdcSMYsTOsxOrVWcLljeMvWM8cnDyL2DWM1ldAecq0cGrCBKwt56xVbLpvttgJJYnP4DNZ9c94dtM Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 11:45:03AM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > On 6/29/26 11:37, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 11:25:52AM +0200, Pratyush Yadav wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 29 2026, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> [...] > >>> > >>> > >>> 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. > > Yes, I saw it on bigger stuff as well, but not on small stuff, really. > > >> > >> 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. > > Guess it gets interesting once the SOB does not carry that information. Also, > some people might work at company X (and send code from company mail address) > but may hold all copyright by themselves. > > So even the git log cannot tell that story. > > But in any case, I would expect a comment about that in the patch description :) Right yeah that'd be nice agreed :) > > -- > Cheers, > > David Cheers, Lorenzo