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SubjectRe: Multiple patch authors
On 10/25/2012 06:59 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:56:54PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> No, SOBs are to document patch forwarding. Co-authorship can be
>> expressed a number of ways, such as:
>>
>> Based-on-patch-from: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
>>
>> and/or by adding you as a copyright holder to one of the files.
>
> Ok, let's hold this down in writing for future reference and in case I
> forget (which will happen, most probably :-)).
>

I have also used:

Originally-by:

... for a patch originally written by one person but then extensively
reworked to the point of not really being the same work.

-hpa

--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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