On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:34:43PM +0200, Daniel Kochmański wrote:
Dear all,
to my great detriment I've recently noticed, that Sunxi SPL NAND support I've been working very hard to upstream has been lately reverted. I was surprised, that nobody has acknowledged me about that.
Namely I'm talking about commit: da9971d1b3bdb554d4a4ac948119f8b2616bbcce
For reference: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=da9971d1b3bdb554d4a4ac948119f8b2... Which refers to http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=f76eba38b3eda905ff3bdc18dd1240d3...
I guess it was an act of my dishonest ex-employer, with whom we have now legal issue about copyrights on above-mentioned driver. In January 2015 I was granted with the permission to upstream the code to Das U-Boot from my ex-employer and sent set of patches which I hadn't time to work with later (note the copyrights on nand driver):
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com/msg09354.html
After this job I have finally had time to finish this work (which is based on already published code from January 5th). It didn't took long, when Antmicro send me a legal paper with claims that I infract their copyrights – what isn't true. This dispute is still pending on the legal ground.
I have no words for such a meanness from my previous employer – to give permission to upstream code and then, for probably the some business reasons, deny their own words. This is really tawdry.
Please, to all sides, don't drag the community into this. What I want to note is that in the offending commit from Daniel there is _not_ a Signed-off-by line from Daniel, and for a non-trivial contribution like this, that should not have been merged, regardless of the legal status of the code between Daniel and Antmicro. No Signed-off-by line on a large contribution? Should not be merged, period.