linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: rv: Fix full name of the GPL

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Message-ID: <878rhtl2mz.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2023 07:57:40 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@...ow.org>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...nel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: rv: Fix full name of the GPL

Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@...ow.org> writes:

> On Monday, 23 January 2023 14:51:57 CET Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>> > Please disregard this patch.
>> > I'm now sending a similar response as I'm sending to my other patch
>> > submissions, which is the following:
>> > 
>> > I now consider my initial view of the issue as a spelling error,
>> > incorrect. I would be changing the license and IANAL. I'm also not the
>> > copyright holder which I believe is needed to change the license.
>> > 
>> > Apologies for the noise.
>> 
>> Glad to reply, but I see your reply above as if it is written by
>> a bot. Care to vary your sentences?
>
> I already got a bounce as I am now considered a spammer :-/

No, I don't think anybody sees you as that.  Please do not worry about
Bagas; he is fond of unnecessarily picking holes in the work of others.

> So now I got to figure out how to fix this clusterfsck, without being seen as
> a spammer/bot, while also trying to minimize the burden on others.

You tried a fix which, as was pointed out, was not the right direction.
Just drop it and move onto your next contribution, and all will be well.

Thanks,

jon