linux-kernel - Re: [tip:core/locking] lockdep, rtmutex, bug: Show taint flags on error

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Message-ID: <20111206182155.6b4dedc3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 6 Dec 2011 18:21:55 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [tip:core/locking] lockdep, rtmutex, bug: Show taint flags on
 error

> FYI, there's no "I will only sign off on a patch doing two 
> things if it's applied in full" kind of condition in the SOB 
> definition, allowing that would break the GPL: people have the 
> right to take your modifications to the GPL-ed kernel and modify 
> it further.

That gets into moral rights, and at least in the EU representing someone
as the author of something they are not isn't a good idea even before you
get to any contractual or licensing questions. I don't believe the EU is
unusual in this point either.

Alan
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