From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261722AbUKJLtl (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:49:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261735AbUKJLtl (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:49:41 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:44818 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261722AbUKJLtj (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:49:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:49:35 +0000 From: Russell King To: Chris Ross Cc: David Woodhouse , Linux Kernel Mailing List , torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: Mangling attributions. Message-ID: <20041110114935.B18233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Ross , David Woodhouse , Linux Kernel Mailing List , torvalds@osdl.org References: <200411060407.iA647Wx6013692@hera.kernel.org> <1100083318.21273.41.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <20041110111333.A18233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <4191F9FE.8060701@tebibyte.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <4191F9FE.8060701@tebibyte.org>; from chris@tebibyte.org on Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:22:38PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Chris Ross wrote: > Russell King escreveu: > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:41:58AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > >>Russell, please don't mangle the attribution in this way. Please include > >>a correct email address for the submitter of the mail, and in any > >>Signed-Off-By: lines. The idea is that we're supposed to be able to work > >>out who submitted stuff, and how to get in touch with them if we want > >>to. > > > > Tough. Shit. I'm not changing this. Sorry. > > > > If you don't agree with my stance on the Data Protection Act, go and find > > someone else to merge patches. > > Ouch! In what way do you feel a proper "signed off by" contravenes the > Data Protection Act, the gist of which is that personal information may > be used only with permission and for the purpose for which it was given. > I would have thought that signing off the patch meets both those > criteria. Why do you think it doesn't? Please read what the act says and consider what a personal email address is, and consider that placing personal data from someone on a website or placing it in BK in the EU is publishing personal data outside the realms of the EU. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core