Re: [PATCH 0/8] DRM Rust abstractions

[Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>]

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> > However, I understand that you prefer to have primary authorship, even if the
> > code has been re-organized in new commits, moved, modified or rewritten.
>
> Correct.

For anyone working in this area that is intending to upstream anything
from asahi, I think if code is rewritten completely it's probably not
consistent to keep the primary author. Copyright doesn't cover ideas,
it covers the code. It's fine to add acknowledgements and other tags.
For all the other cases where it's just moving code around or
modifying it, please try and retain the primary author. I'd suggest if
anyone is basing stuff on the Asahi tree, they try to take things
as-is as closely as possible, then use subsequent commits to
clean/fix/rework, this might mean we have to live with some messy
history that isn't easily bisectable, but I think to avoid any
confusion later and to keep from repeatedly bothering Lina with kernel
development questions on what is acceptable for what patches, we
should try to remain consistent here.

If you write new code from scratch without reference to the asahi tree
at all, please try and state this is a clean implementation to avoid
future possible confusions, if you are aware there is asahi code,
though I realise that could be contradictory. There are often cases
where there is only one way to write some code and I'd rather we don't
fall into unwarranted accusations of bad behaviour.

Dave.