Re: [PATCH v2 09/39] scripts/kernel-doc.py: add a Python parser

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> writes:

> Em Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:38:58 -0700
> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:
>
>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> writes:
>> 
>> 
>> I also think you should give consideration to preserving the other
>> copyright notices in the Perl version.  A language translation doesn't
>> remove existing copyrights...who knows how much creativity went into
>> some of those regexes?
>
> Makes sense, but the copyrights at kernel-doc.pl:
>
> 	## Copyright (c) 1998 Michael Zucchi, All Rights Reserved        ##
> 	## Copyright (C) 2000, 1  Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>          ##
> 	## Copyright (C) 2001  Simon Huggins                             ##
> 	## Copyright (C) 2005-2012  Randy Dunlap                         ##
> 	## Copyright (C) 2012  Dan Luedtke                               ##
> 	##                                                               ##
> 	## #define enhancements by Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>     ##
> 	## Copyright (c) 2000 MontaVista Software, Inc.                  ##
> 	#
> 	# Copyright (C) 2022 Tomasz Warniełło (POD)
>
> Also doesn't preserve all copyrights from people that worked hard to
> maintain it all over those years.

Agreed ... and I'm not sure what we can do about that.  But *removing*
existing copyright notices is a bit of a different story; that is
generally considered to be fairly bad form.

I don't have a problem with adding a longer credits area, I guess, if we
want to do that (though it's not normal for other source files).  But
I'm not sure we need to.

Thanks,

jon