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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: IEEE 754-2008 features support
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Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>, Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> >  I think Thomas, being the writer of the majority of code comprising these 
> > patches
> 
> Too bad that Git doesn't allow for listing several authors.  ;-)

 I believe `Signed-off-by' serves this purpose:

"The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the
development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path."

-- as originally specified by linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches that 
we refer to from <http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>.  See also 
Section 1, Point 12 "Sign your work" in the same document referred.

 The way the tag has been defined may make it a little bit ambiguous who 
the actual authors are, but I think it is safe to interpret it as meaning 
that all people named by `Signed-off-by' tags of a given patch being the 
authors of the change.

> > is now in the best position to make such a statement happen.  
> > Thomas -- will you be able to take it from here?  Thanks!
> 
> It is fine to license these changes under the SoftFloat-2a license.

 Great!  Thanks for confirming.

  Maciej