linux-kernel - Re: PSA: Do not use "Reported-By" without reporter's approval

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Message-ID: <20190523055331.GA16577@Gentoo>
Date:   Thu, 23 May 2019 11:23:31 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PSA: Do not use "Reported-By" without reporter's approval

Make sense Kai!

On 15:30 Wed 22 May , Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>Hello, all:
>
>It is common courtesy to include this tagline when submitting patches:
>
>Reported-By: J. Doe <jdoe@...mple.com>
>
>Please ask the reporter's permission before doing so (even if they'd
>submitted a public bugzilla report or sent a report to the mailing
>list). They need to understand and agree that:
>
>- their name and email address will become a permanent, non-excisable
>  part of the Linux Kernel git history
>- their name and email address will be stored on multiple public
>  archival copies of the linux kernel mailing list, collected and
>  managed by different legal entities
>
>With or without GDPR laws, this is something the reporter needs to be
>aware of and they need to be okay with it, as a matter of courtesy.
>
>-K

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