Dear Wolfgang,
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:56:52PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: [...]
If you don't do that, then either somebody else will clean up your patch and commit it and earn the credits for your work, or nobody will care and the problem remains, which means your work was basicly wasted.
that was why I wrote now, because it seemed to me that the latter might happen in the current case. But maybe I misunderstood Renatos intention here.
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Um... and instead of maintaining several private source trees you should consider poushing your code upstream, so that others do the maintenance for you.
The intention is to do so with my next project at work - but again it depends on how much time is left after sorting out all the low-level hard- and software bugs.
You get the credit by being the author of the commit, and by your Signed-off-by: line in it. "git log" will show it, "git blame" will show it, and you will find your place in the U-Boot statistics page, too. You do not have any entitlement on a (C) Copyright entry in a bigger source file if you change just a few lines in it. That's not reasonable.
Thanks for clearing this up.
Best regards, Wolfgang