[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/9] sunxi: generic sun7i build infrastructure.

[Ian Campbell]

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 at 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).