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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:24:43 +0100
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
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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!