From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] scsi: arcmsr: Remove the changelog
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:47:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <be346e1f-eb50-4561-9319-7554d7793785@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a81e712d44ddfcdb87897d3b988632df11797801.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
On 10/2/24 3:39 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-10-02 at 13:33 -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> Since we typically do not maintain changelogs as text files in the
>> kernel, and since the arcmsr changelog has not been updated since
>> 2008, remove it.
>
> This is legally problematic. Under the terms of the GPL, the
> copyrights and change log are required to be kept intact (section 1
> since they're notices). We sometimes fudge around this if there's an
> equivalent in the source control system (so the git history substitutes
> for the requirement to add change notices and can sometimes be used to
> remove change notices if they can also be seen in git). There isn't an
> equivalent in this case since the change log pre-dates the driver
> addition.
Hi James,
Thanks for the feedback. I will drop the patches that remove change
logs.
Bart.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-02 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-02 20:33 [PATCH v2 00/11] Improve the "slave" function names Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] scsi: arcmsr: Remove the changelog Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 22:28 ` Damien Le Moal
2024-10-02 22:39 ` James Bottomley
2024-10-02 23:47 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2024-10-02 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] scsi: ips: " Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 22:28 ` Damien Le Moal
2024-10-02 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] scsi: lpfc: " Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 22:29 ` Damien Le Moal
2024-10-02 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] scsi: ncr53c8xx: " Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 22:29 ` Damien Le Moal
2024-10-02 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] scsi: sym53c8xx: " Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 22:30 ` Damien Le Moal
2024-10-02 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] scsi: Rename .slave_alloc() and .slave_destroy() Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 22:39 ` Damien Le Moal
2024-10-03 21:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] scsi: core: Rename .slave_alloc() and .slave_destroy() in the documentation Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 20:34 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] scsi: Rename .device_configure() into .sdev_configure() Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 22:35 ` Damien Le Moal
2024-10-02 20:34 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] scsi: Convert SCSI drivers to .sdev_configure() Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 22:37 ` Damien Le Moal
2024-10-02 20:34 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] scsi: core: Remove the .slave_configure() method Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 22:38 ` Damien Le Moal
2024-10-02 20:34 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] scsi: core: Update .slave_configure() references in the documentation Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02 22:38 ` Damien Le Moal
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