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    SubjectRe: Credit for vsprintk work

    * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

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    >
    >
    > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
    >
    > >
    > > Frederic,
    > >
    > > $ git blame lib/vsprintf.c |grep 'Frederic Weisbecker' | wc -l
    > > 542
    > >
    > > You did a hell of a lot of work on vsprintf.c, and you are still too
    > > modest to put in a copyright at the top.
    > >
    > > I know some people think that git is good enough for ownership. But
    > > really, the amount of changes that you did in vsprintf.c deserves a bit of
    > > credit in the source file.
    > >
    > > Is everyone OK if a copyright goes at the top of this file giving credit
    > > to Frederic? If for anything else, it will facilitate people to find who
    > > broke it if it breaks ;-)
    > >
    > > I think Frederic should send one more patch to add his copyright. That is,
    > > of course, if Frederic wants too.
    > >
    > > Note, Frederic did not ask me to post this. In fact, this is the first
    > > time he's seen this complaint. I'm posting this because I was showing this
    > > code to some students at a University and when I wanted to point out
    > > who wrote it, I was surprised that Frederic's name was not mentioned.
    > > I was looking at the code via LXR so git was not helpful here.
    >
    > Lai also did this work too, so I recommend adding something like:
    >
    > * Binary printk modifications, copyright 2009:
    > * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    > * Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
    >
    > Or something similar.

    I'd suggest the standard copyright form:

    *
    * Binary printk modifications and generalizations:
    *
    * Copyright (C) 2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    * Copyright (C) 2009 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
    *

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