[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/9] sunxi: generic sun7i build infrastructure.

Wolfgang Denk
2014-03-22T12:33:14Z

Dear Ian,

In message <1395482650.2234.104.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> you wrote:
>
> > What does that mean? I cannot find these names in the SoB lines?
>
> I explained the process by which I arrived at these lists in 0/9. It
> means that they appear as an author for a commit in the history in the
> u-boot-sunxi.git, but did not supply an S-o-b. However I am adding my
> own S-o-b under clause (b) of the DCO, which I believe applies here.

Please read (again) what the Developer's Certificate of Origin means.
It appears that such code would fall under clause (c):

The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.

Did for example "j" or "hehopmajieh" provide such certificates to you?

> It's entirely possible that none of these peoples' contributions still
> remain in the files being upstreamed, but figuring that out for sure
> would be a large and manual task. As I explained in 0/9 I prefer to
> over-credit by mentioning people whose actual contributions no longer
> remain rather than fail to credit someone whose contribution does

The Sob is only partially for crediting; the major purpose is to make
sure we really have the full rights to distribute such code under the
listed licenses. To guarantee that, the chain of certificates mustnot
be interrupted.

> I have email addresses from the commit authorship, which I should indeed
> have included here, I shall definitely do that for v3. Please let me
> know whether or not I should also spend hours trawling down the precise
> pedigree of each line of code.

The SoB lines need real names plus real, working mail addresses. The
Linux "Documentation/SubmittingPatches" filemakes this clear:

using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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