On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 16:12 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 03/22/2014 01:33 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
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.
No as said before the parts for which we don't have a Signed-off-by for falls under b), since we took it from existing code which has clear GPLv2+ license headers on each and every file.
Thanks, this is just what I was just about to say.
b) Reads:
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under the same open source license (unless I am permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated in the file; or
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.
Right, and we do since the files we're basing our work on is GPLv2+ licensed, the purpose of the listing of extra names other then the Signed-off-by: tags is for solely for attribution.
Right.
Note in some cases we do have email addresses and Ian has said he will add those in the next version,
Actually in every case we have email addresses, I just omitted them up until now (since a credit doesn't strictly need one).