From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.stusta.mhn.de (mail.stusta.mhn.de [141.84.69.5]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA397EC65 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:03:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.stusta.mhn.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 46VJn64s1FzQx; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:03:54 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=stusta.de; s=default; t=1568387035; bh=uLR8lZ6Zprjh/VL4j/DAzSwk5nhB2rK5lk7Hb6ZNgyM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=CwVsj+9K5kuWwe1A8MqVPRyGASalP1OyrnQJvSpkiOyWG6gOaXSvBH9ZHij3mtMtY vc71Pna3LEok+5wmOPlktSt+iheNnVL3wDyqT0aSCy6ohJrfuH2sP2El5pWlV8syjK q5YS55r0wVusxInCT5fc/hBn/46xMeHGSFpx4wBy9jBnaayvN6T5NavyIqEi5Sda2+ 8IYqywbnZ4eMGAOEG5IbyLzHW95OlWHyztfrOojsWF9ERQuM/Qti57dB+0TdBy3J1W +UZ3pJBU9Nd3b37vCGBqx0/YAOhAX4Ot0gRT1xLDaaZmrxfATuMdzytr/zcK9XtVpJ w1XiZXCPuqUbdIFVBakb+9MLintu9q3Yb9llfIOadcX2pQwXRazQh/2PnwvRSj9Zq7 pF/fBG2LXeEn+zSyHrkJsPkFyfwJX7HwgQ/MAx0LgGASc0ZZGXqOlcRrQ4LfJEPZnl V13Ml1wKFKBon4h+/1sXiQprBCkVtpxBpjPCmnJ7T09xaEDEgfSET6WdneITo94E1M W5uCrlqMNnNn1B1XG+Lg7WkePG5ajrsKXvcsIgg6PUTwia14rytts5ieT9iFDV7hEz 6/YQbwF12iMTaknefh7+1TP4h81zvUFqQ+ERI/U9Su6fESVwv622VNZeW4hRHW18Dn O+4iB4mcyjcfRqzYRi6Z/BaI= Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:03:51 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: akuster808 Message-ID: <20190913150351.GA5554@localhost> References: <20190912065221.733-1-zangrc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> <20190912142824.GB5021@localhost> <95697dfd-5692-c175-3fd4-0609e3b96310@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <95697dfd-5692-c175-3fd4-0609e3b96310@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] timezone:upgrade 2019b -> 2019c X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:03:56 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:30:30AM -0700, akuster808 wrote: > On 9/12/19 7:28 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > I applaud those who  take the time and  effort of providing additional > information in the commit messages. >... Blind pasting of the complete upstream changelog is not exactly an effort that would warrant applause. A short summary of the relevant parts might be useful, but when you are asking to include details like The 1892-05-01 transition in Brussels was at 00:17:30, not at noon. that's only adding noise in "git log". > > BTW: How is the legal handling of the metadata, when such lengthy > > 3rd party texts copyrighted by various people under various > > licences are distributed as part of the git metadata? > Interesting question. Since I am not a lawyer, I am also not a lawyer. > maybe you can help guide > the community so we do the right thing. Now I am worried about the > stable branches, > do backports have  this same issue, are those 3-party texts? Backporting does not make a difference here, it is about under what licence the contents of the commit message is. Pasting texts from elsewhere makes the licencing of the git metadata a complete mess, like you cannot claim it is MIT if it contains text from GPLv3 software. A person using Signed-off-by also certifies that the whole contribution is under an open source license, which would make pasting changelogs from components that are not under an open source license clearly off-limits. Not sure how much actual lawyers care about such issues, but once something is in the git history it is too late. > - armin cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed