From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: buytenh@wantstofly.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove non-MAINTAINERS email address references for Lennert Buytenhek.
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:28:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110410.132817.226768042.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110410202716.GK22881@wantstofly.org>
From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:27:16 +0200
> The problem is that half of them are out of date. I at first sent a
> patch to change them all over to buytenh@wantstofly.org, but then got:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129858453409012&w=2
>
> which seemed sensible. :-/
It's not just about maintainership, it's about copyright too.
For example, whether someone does or does not use their employer's
email address in the copyright can have an impact on whether their
employer can make a claim on copyright of the work. There
are therefore real implications for what email address is there.
Like Andrew said, if people want to reach the active maintainer
they can use MAINTAINERS or look into the recent GIT logs for
the associated files.
Changing copyright email addresses can get into unrelated areas.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-10 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-10 13:45 [PATCH] Remove non-MAINTAINERS email address references for Lennert Buytenhek Lennert Buytenhek
2011-04-10 20:20 ` David Miller
2011-04-10 20:27 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2011-04-10 20:28 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-04-10 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-11 17:47 ` Florian Mickler
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