[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/4] mtdparts: show net size in mtdparts list

Harald Welte
2010-08-08T04:06:49Z

Dear Wolfgang,

On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:08:50PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > * update copyright of cmd_mtdparts.c
>
> That was a bad idea. We do not add change logs to files, because we
> have the full history of changes in git.

just to clearly understand your point: Your objection is against the

> > + * Added net partition size output to mtdparts list command

in the file itself, as it should be a changelog. Your objection is
(I hope) not against the author claiming copyright in the source code
file itself, right?

Copyright claims are something that you can hardly deny any author
in the work itself - particularly since the majority of distributions
are made as tarballs that do not contain the full git history.

While even in the US there is now no legal requirement anymore to have
this copyright notice to claim copyright, it is still common practise
and a good idea. I definitely can confirm this from the actual GPL
enforcement work that I've been doing, where you have to substantiate
the fact that you actually do have copyright... and when the source
file contains such indication, it is pretty straight forward. If
you'd have to explain the workings of a revision control system and how
to extract this information first, it will be significantly more complex.

Regards,
Harald
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