linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/13] module: Move livepatch support to a separate file

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Message-ID: <YeBBQ+W/UaU06Fd5@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:12:03 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     David Vernet <void@...ifault.com>
Cc:     Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...mlin.com>,
        Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...hat.com>, cl@...ux.com,
        pmladek@...e.com, mbenes@...e.cz, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        jeyu@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, ghalat@...hat.com,
        allen.lkml@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/13] module: Move livepatch support to a
 separate file

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 06:16:54AM -0800, David Vernet wrote:
> Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...mlin.com> wrote on Thu [2022-Jan-13 10:35:31 +0000]:
> > Who should I specify? I'm not entirely sure. If I understand correctly,
> > Jessica was the original author of the majority.
> 
> Personally I would just remove the whole copyright as the SPDX identifier
> should be sufficient. I'll let Luis weigh in here as the Modules
> maintainer, though.

Technically every contributor to the file has a copyright entry added,
one does not need to add the name to the header, that's just common
practice though. If someone goes through the work of at least adding
the name of the main author, that a nice effort. Tons of files don't
have authors listed, so I'd be fine with that too and it keeps things
simple. What we should not do ever is remove the copyright notice so
code which Rusty wrote should be maintained with the notice.

  Luis