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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Credit for vsprintk work
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:24:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090325192439.GG5932@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903250949420.5675@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:58:52AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Frederic,
> 
>  $ git blame lib/vsprintf.c |grep 'Frederic Weisbecker' | wc -l
> 542
> 
> You did a hell of a lot of work on vsprintf.c, and you are still too 
> modest to put in a copyright at the top.
> 
> I know some people think that git is good enough for ownership. But 
> really, the amount of changes that you did in vsprintf.c deserves a bit of 
> credit in the source file.
> 
> Is everyone OK if a copyright goes at the top of this file giving credit 
> to Frederic?  If for anything else, it will facilitate people to find who 
> broke it if it breaks ;-)
> 
> I think Frederic should send one more patch to add his copyright. That is, 
> of course, if Frederic wants too.
> 
> Note, Frederic did not ask me to post this. In fact, this is the first 
> time he's seen this complaint. I'm posting this because I was showing this 
> code to some students at a University and when I wanted to point out 
> who wrote it, I was surprised that Frederic's name was not mentioned.
> I was looking at the code via LXR so git was not helpful here.
> 
> -- Steve
> 


:-)

Ok, so if nobody is opposite to, I will send a patch for that.
Lai, no problem with me adding your copyright too?

Thanks!


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-25 13:58 Credit for vsprintk work Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 14:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 15:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-25 17:17   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 19:24 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2009-03-27  2:41   ` Lai Jiangshan

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